Pegu Club Recipe
A dry, bracing gin sour: orange liqueur and lime sharpened by both Angostura and orange bitters.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Martini glass
- ABV: 27%
- Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- Gin60 ml (2 oz)
- Cointreau22 ml (0.7 oz)
- Fresh lime juice15 ml (0.5 oz)
- Angostura bitters1 dash
- Orange bitters1 dash
How to Make It
- Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
- Shake hard until well chilled.
- Double-strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Serve without garnish.
Garnish
None
The Story
The house cocktail of the Pegu Club, a British colonial club in Rangoon, Burma, in the 1920s; Harry Craddock printed it in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930, noting it had travelled round the world.
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