Yet another hubristic friend has requested a namesake cocktail. My neighbor, Caroline, brought home a pot of basil and wanted me to make a drink with it. She said she thought lemon would go well with the basil, and so I decided to make a Southside variation with basil rather than mint.
2 oz London dry gin (Beefeater)
2 tsp fresh lemon juice
2 tsp 2:1 simple syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
several fresh basil leaves
Muddle basil leaves with lemon juice and syrup, then add gin. Shake with ice, and fine-strain into a brandy snifter (or cocktail glass if no snifter is available). Float one rubbed basil leaf on the top. Take another basil leaf and rub it around the edge of the glass; then discard it.
What can I say about the Queen Caroline? So much of her...uh, I mean it...escapes articulability, but I'll try. Tart; sweet; beautifully fragrant; sexy, even. Obviously, then, I'm referring to the drink.
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1 year ago
I thought it was going to be called the basilisk, guess it's the same thing....
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