Fac Potiones Excellens

Tipples → Mixed Drinks → Slings → Cocktails → Plain Cocktails → Plain Cocktail Basic Forms

Queen's-class Swizzle Basic Form

Terminus post quem: A.D. 1855 ↔ Terminus ante quem: A.D. 1910

Have the folowwing items:

Service-ware

8 fl-oz. glass room tumbler
(example: Libbey 135)
drinking straw
(preferably: 5-inch glass, narrow)
4-inch beverage napkin

Tools

cuting board
paring knife
ice scoop
measuring dessert spoon
[2 tsp. / ~10 ml.]
measuring bar spoon
[½ tsp. / ~2.5 ml.]
jigger-and-pony measure
[2 fl-oz. by 1 fl-oz. / ~60 ml. by ~30 ml.]
small fine-mesh strainer
[3-inch to 4-inch]
disc-ended barspoon

Ingredients

spearmint
[fresh]
crushed ice
bitters
(Angostura™ Aromatic gentian bitters are default)
sugar
superfine white
liquor
(spirits are default)
bar-tender's lime juice
[Citrus aurantiifolia - Key lime]

Instructions

Select and trim a small floret of spearmint and reserve it.
Take the room tumbler to the ice. Into it is added:

• crushed ice — fill (level)

Set the iced room tumbler in the work area. Into it is added:

• gentian bitters — 4 dashes
[1 barspoonfull / ½ tsp. / ~2.5 ml.]
• sugar — 1 dessertspoonfull
[2 tsp. / ~10 ml.]
• spirit — 1 jiggerfull
[2 poniesfull / 2 fl-oz. / ~60 ml.]

Hold the mesh strainer over the highball tumbler, and through it strain in:

• bar-tender's lime juice — 1 barspoonfull
[½ tsp. / ~2.5 ml.]

Insert the disc-end of the barspoon into the tumbler and churn the ingredients to mix, chill and dilute until the tumbler becomes frosted.

Remove the barspoon and insert the straw. Garnish the drink with:

• spearmint floret (reserved in step #1) — 1 strip
(carefully floated stem-down on the surface of the drink nest to the drinking straw).

Serve the drink on the napkin with the straw protruding at ‘one-thirty o’clock’ from the drinker’s point of view.

* When using Amazon links from this site, a very small fraction might be paid to Elemental Mixology without affecting the purchase price.