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Martinis & Manhattans · Gin

Bronx

Gin with both vermouths, orange bitters and a little orange juice: a Perfect Martini with orange in it.

Strength
≈ 14% ABV
Calories
≈ 150
Glass
Coupe
Method
Shaken

The recipe

How to make it

  1. 1Shake everything with ice.
  2. 2Strain into a chilled coupe.
  3. 3Squeeze a strip of orange peel over the top.

Garnish: Orange peel.

Variations: From the 1920s, recipes add more orange juice, such as the juice of a quarter orange (McElhone, 1927); that fruitier drink is the Bronx most bars make now.

Boothby gives a third each of gin and the two vermouths and “about a barspoon” of orange juice; the amounts are scaled to a 3 oz drink. He doesn’t say how to mix it; Jack’s Manual (1910) shakes it.

The ratio

1 : 1 : 1

In parts, a Bronx is 1 gin, 1 vermouth and 1 vermouth. Plus a touch of orange. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.

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Built the same way

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1 : 1

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Old Pal

1 : 1 : 1

Gin → Whiskey

Brooklyn

1 : 1

Head to head

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By the numbers

Estimated per drink, as served

Calories

≈ 150

Sugar

≈ 6 g

Strength

≈ 14%

Std. drinks

≈ 1.3

Gin ≈ 66Sweet vermouth ≈ 45Dry vermouth ≈ 33Orange bitters ≈ 4Orange juice ≈ 2 How we estimate