Maiden's Blush Cocktail

Name: Maiden's Blush
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Ingredients: 1.5 oz London Dry Gin; 0.75 oz orange liqueur; 0.33 oz lemon juice; 0.5 oz simple syrup; 1 tsp grenadine; ice (optional)

Strong
dry

fruity
valentine

A dry, strong cocktail, shaken over ice, served in a coupe glass.

Serve in: coupe glass

Ingredients

1.5 ozLondon Dry Gin
0.75 ozorange liqueur
0.33 ozlemon juice
0.5 ozsimple syrup
1 tspgrenadine
iceoptional

How to Make a Maiden's Blush

Instructions

Shake all ingredients with ice.
Fine strain into chilled coupe glass.

Garnish

Garnish with lemon zest twist.

Tips & substitutions

No gin? Try vodka, tequila or white rum.
No lemon juice? Try lime juice.

The glass

Serve this one in a coupe glass. Also known as Champagne Coupe or Champagne saucer. Fancy looking glass invented in the mid 17th century in England.

Did you know

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.