Recipe and source notes

South Side Cocktail

1 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 10–12 mint leaves
  • 2 oz gin
  • ¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • ¾ oz simple syrup

Make it step by step

  1. Combine all ingredients except mint into a cocktail shaker, fill shaker with ice, and shake well.
  2. Open shaker and add mint, leaving 1 mint leaf around the size of your thumb for garnish.
  3. Close cocktail shaker and roll the mint from one end of the shaker to the other to gently express the mint oils but to not bruise the mint.
  4. Use a hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer to filter the contents into a chilled cocktail coupe.
  5. Garnish with the spare mint leaf you left aside.

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Recipe source

Adapted from Wikibooks Cookbook by Wikibooks contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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