Day 41, Cocktails 34 and 35
While sitting around this afternoon contemplating how to get caught up on my cocktails I pulled my copy of The Cocktail Bible off the shelf. As I flipped through the classics section I came upon the Singapore Sling. I’ve never had a Singapore Sling I thought to myself…well, no time like the present!
Singapore Sling
- 1 oz Plymouth gin
- 1/2 oz cherry brandy
- 1/2 oz lemon juice
- 1/8 oz grenandine
- seltzer water
Place several ice cubes in a shaker. Add the gin, brandy, lemon juice and grenadine. Shake well to mix. Pour into a rocks glass half full with ice cubes. Top with seltzer water and garnish with a lime peel and cocktail cherries.
To be honest, I wasn’t wild with this one. It may be because I used Kirschwasser as my cherry brandy. This is a German style brandy that borders on the harsh and is not at all sweet.
However, undaunted, I decided to try a variant using Heering cherry liqueur in place of the brandy.
Heering Singapore Sling
- 1 oz Plymouth gin
- 1/4 oz Heering cherry liqueur
- 1/2 oz lemon juice
- 1/8 oz bar syrup
- seltzer water
Combine the gin, Heering, lemon juice, and bar syrup in a shaker with ice cubes. Shake well to combine. Strain into a rocks glass about 1/2 full of ice cubes. Top with seltzer water and garnish with a cherry and lemon peel.
This was a better effort than the original Singapore Sling, but still not quite right. I had actually cut the Heering in half from my first version, but I think this one still needs some tweaking. Give it a shot, put your twist on it and let me know what you come up with.
Cheers!
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5 Comments
Add fresh pineapple juice. Dee-lish.
That is an excellent suggestion – thanks!
To clarify, I meant to the Heering recipe.
I’ll try that out Rich and let you know how it turned out!
Here’s the supposed original sling recipe:
The original from Raffles Hotel in Singapore is:
1 1/2 ounce (30 ml) gin
1/2 ounce (15 ml) Heering Cherry Liqueur
1/4 ounce (7.5 ml) Cointreau
1/4 ounce (7.5 ml DOM Benedictine
4 ounces (120 ml) pineapple juice
1/2 ounce (15 ml) lime juice
1/3 ounce (10 ml) grenadine
dash Angostura bitters
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