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Juliet and Romeo
The Juliet and Romeo is a shaken gin cocktail, fresh and citrusy. It is made with cucumber slices, mint leaves, gin and more, served in a coupe.
Toby Maloney, Chicago, 2000s. A gin sour that smells like a garden.
Ingredients
| Cucumber slices | 3 slices |
| Mint leaves | 6 leaves |
| Gin | 60 ml (2 oz) |
| Lime juice | 22.5 ml (¾ oz) |
| Simple syrup | 22.5 ml (¾ oz) |
| Rose water | 3 drops |
| Angostura bitters | 3 drops |
Method
- Add everything to a shaker and fill with ice.
- Shake hard for 10 to 12 seconds.
- Strain into a chilled coupe.
- Garnish with mint leaf, a drop of rose water and of bitters.
- Glass
- Coupe
- Ice
- None, served up
- Garnish
- Mint leaf, a drop of rose water and of bitters