How to Make The Cucumber Basil Gimlet - Best Drink Recipes

Описание: The classic cocktail gets a fresh-produce boost.

The gimlet is a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice. A 1928 description of the drink was: "gin, a spot of lime, and soda."[1] The description in the 1953 Raymond Chandler novel The Long Goodbye stated that "a real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else".[2]

For the vodka gimlet, replace gin with vodka.

A very similar cocktail using rum instead of vodka or gin—as well as fresh lime juice—is the daiquiri.

A recipe appears as early as Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection - Page 129 in 1852 (dr goodeve chuckerbutty on cholera - ordered gin mixture)

"ordered gin mixture (gin, sugar, water, lime juice) every four hours."

Lime Cordial is called for as early as

Because I've not been there before: Being extracts from the ... by Oswald Lewis in 1929

"You take a claret glass, half fill it with gin and lime- juice in equal proportions (fresh limes with a little sugar added for choice, otherwise lime-juice cordial), fill it up with crushed ice, stir, and drink through a straw."

Gimlet himself appears in literature in

First report of the Royal commission on opium: with Minutes of ... - Page 95 by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Opium, Lakshmiswar Singh (maharajah of Darbhanga), Thomas Brassey Brassey (Earl) in 1894

"Surgeon-Major Gimlette, MD, called in and examined. Surg.-Maj. Gimlette, MV 7 Feb. 1894. Surg.-Maj. Gimlette"