Singapore Sling

Created some time between 1910 and 1915 at the famed long Bar in the Raffles Hotel, Singapore, the original Sling recipe was long ago lost. During the 1970s management decided to restore the cocktail and came up with this libation.

[five-star-rating]

Ingredients

1 1/2 ounces gin

1/2 ounce cherry Heering

1/4 ounce Cointreau

1/4 ounce benedictine

4 ounces pineapple juice

1/2 ounce lime juice

1/3 ounce grenadine

1 dash bitters

Instructions

Shake the pineapple juice, gin, lime juice, Cherry Heering, Bénédictine, Cointreau, and bitters with ice. Shake until it really hurts or you won’t get the foam that is a signature feature of the cocktail

Strain into a highball glass about 3/4 filled with ice

Garnish with a pineapple wedge and a maraschino cherry