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Puritan Cocktail

Martini cocktail variation with gin yellow Chartreuse orange bitters and lemon twist in a cocktail glass.
Photo by Lizzie Munro

The Puritan Cocktail lies somewhere between the Martini and the Alaska, using both dry vermouth and a bit of yellow Chartreuse. The Brooklyn bar Tooker Alley serves a fine version. This is their recipe.

Ingredients

2

ounces Plymouth gin

1

ounce Dolin dry vermouth

2

teaspoons yellow Chartreuse

1

dash orange bitters

Lemon twist

Need to make a substitution?

Preparation

  1. Combine the liquid ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Express a lemon twist over the surface of the drink and drop it into the glass.

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Excerpted from The Martini Cocktail: A Meditation on the World's Greatest Drink, with Recipes © 2019 by Robert Simonson. Photography by Lizzie Munro. Reproduced by permission of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. All rights reserved. Buy the full book from Amazon.
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