Gin sour cocktail

Name: Gin sour cocktail
Ingredients: 1 egg white; 3 tbsp gin; 1 tbsp amaretto; 2 tbsp lemon juice; 1/2 tsp orange-blossom water; nutmeg

Photo by Roberto Caruso

Brad Stanton is the bar and lounge manager at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s Hawksworth Restaurant in Vancouver. This old-school sipper is inspired by his take on the 1940s original.

Ingredients

1 egg white
3 tbsp gin
1 tbsp amaretto
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp orange-blossom water
nutmeg

Instructions

Add all ingredients except nutmeg to a shaker. Cover and shake for 10 sec. Add a handful of ice and shake vigorously for about 20 sec.
Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with nutmeg

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