Maple Collins
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(Photo: Roberto Caruso)
This summer-ready twist on the classic sweet-tart Tom Collins adds maple flavour and a ripe red hue from the berries—perfect for patio parties!
Ingredients
6 fresh raspberries
2 1/2 tsp maple syrup
2 oz gin
3 1/2 tsp fresh lemon juice
1 can soda water
Instructions
Muddle raspberries, maple syrup, gin and lemon juice in a shaker. Shake well.
Strain into a tall (Collins) glass filled with ice. Top with club soda and a lemon wheel.
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A National Magazine Award-winning writer, Christine Sismondo has been writing about spirits, cocktails, bars, and history for publications including Chatelaine, Sharp and the LCBO's Food & Drink for over twenty years. She’s also the Academy Chair for Canada East for World’s 50 Best Bars, author of America Walks into a Bar (2011), Prohibition, a six-part podcast series for Wondery’s American History Tellers and, most recently, Cocktails, A Still Life.
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