New drink: the Girl Erin
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Tonight when I came home from work, I decided to mix myself a martini. Alas! as I went to add the vermouth I noticed it had gone off (I really should have noticed this long, long before). The ice was quickly diluting my gin in the shaker… I had to act fast!
Like any would-be mixologist worth a damn, I decided the only thing to make was ’something up.’ So in went some Grand Marnier, a little pot-stilled rum, and bitters. Out came my first mixological invention worth recording, the Girl Erin (named for the lovely and thoughtful Erin who gave me the book that got me interested in the mixological arts).
The Girl Erin
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Plymouth gin
- 1 oz curacao (I use Grand Marnier)
- 1 tsp 115-proof pot-stilled rum (I use Inner Circle green)
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake well. Serve up, with a quarter-wheel of orange on the rim of the glass.
It’s a work in progress, and there is room for experimentation (one obvious tweak would be to replace the Angostura with orange bitters, which i didn’t have on hand), but it’s a pretty tasty drink as is.