GIN SOUR The Gin Sour is a traditional mixed cocktail that predates prohibition. It is a simple combination of gin, lemon juice, and sugar. Adding carbonated water to this turns it into a gin fizz. In an 1898 book by Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley includes it in a list of great supposedly American inventions: I have seen America spread out frm th Atlantic to th Pacific... An th invintions, — th steam-injine an th printin-press an th cotton gin an the gin sour an th bicycle an th flying machine an th nickel-in-th-slot machine an th Croker machine an th sody fountain an — crownin wur-ruk iv our civilization — th cash raygister. Popular during the 1940s, Kevin Starr includes it in an array of drinks (the gin sour, the whiskey sour, the Gin Rickey, the Tom Collins, the Pink lady, the Old Fashioned) that now seem period pieces, evocative of another era.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:19:46 +0000
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