Tom Collins Cocktail

Tom Collins Cocktail

Tom Collins

Some say this elegant drink began as the John Collins, named for a waiter at Limmer’s Old House in London. Eventually, someone made the cocktail with Old Tom Gin and hence, it became the Tom Collins. This theory is made more likely by the Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, when people joked about a non-existent Tom Collins.
Poor John, by the way, still ended up with a namesake cocktail, only mixed with bourbon.
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 oz lemon juice
  • 1 tsp powdered sugar
  • 2 oz Gin
  • Club soda

Instructions

Combine gin, lemon and sugar in a collins glass that is 3/4 full of cracked ice

Stir, then fill with club soda

Garnish with slices of lemon and orange and a cherry and serve with a stirring stick

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