The recipe
- ½Juice of half a lime
- 1½ ozGin45 ml
- Top withSoda water≈ 2 oz
How to make it
- 1Put a lump of ice in a highball glass.
- 2Squeeze in the lime and add the gin.
- 3Fill with soda water and drink it while it fizzes.
Garnish: The squeezed lime shell, dropped in.
Kappeler gives a jigger of gin; the numbers take a jigger as 1½ oz. Other early recipes use the juice of a whole lime and a wine-glass of gin.
The ratio
1 : 3 : 4
In parts, a Gin Rickey is 1 lime, 3 gin and 4 soda. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.
Built the same way
Head to head
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