The recipe
- 2 ozGin60 ml
- ¾ ozLemon juice23 ml
- 1 bar spoonHeaping bar spoon of raspberry preserves
How to make it
- 1Shake everything hard with ice.
- 2Strain into a chilled coupe.
A heaping bar spoon of preserves is taken as about 10 g for the numbers.
The ratio
2¾ : 1 : ¾
In parts, a Cosmonaut is 2¾ gin, 1 lemon and ¾ raspberry jam. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.
Built the same way
Head to head
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