Tom Collins
Ingredients:
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2 oz. london dry gin
1 oz. lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1/2 oz. sugar syrup
to top: club soda
Garnish: lemon chip
Garnish: cocktail cherry
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Steps:
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1. add gin, lemon juice and sugar syrup to a cocktail shaker with ice cubes
2. shake till chilled
3. strain into a long glass with ice cubes
4. top off with as many club soda as you desire
5. garnish with lemon chip and cocktail cherry
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Origin
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We are writing the year 1875, New York in which the Tom Collins hoax was in full motion. Tom Collins who supposedly was a frequent bar visitor set himself the mission to spread as many false rumours around as just possible by using other random bar visitors as his main target.
With victims slowly picking up on his fiasco through friends when they been told about a certain Tom Collins who had been badmouthing them in a local bar nearby which caused them to jump said bars in the hope of finding Tom Collins there. Obviously nobody ever was successful in finding Tom Collins as it was just a made up prank under company which took its rounds at the time. Eventually that made up hoax was even picked up by the news who furthermore brought attention to the already overhyped trend.
A local barkeeper who was severely annoyed by having people come in, asking if he had seen Tom Collins decided to take action so he created a cocktail which he named after Tom Collins and from now on whenever a guest would walk in asking for Tom Collins, they'd be given the cocktail instead.
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