| Philip Marlowe drinks them on the job in Raymond Chandler novels. “A fellow taught me how to drink them", he tells a woman at the bar, who is drinking a Gimlet too, in The Long Goodbye.
The drink, by legend, was a gin cocktail invented late in the 18th century by sailors in the Royal Navy who received daily rations of gin and lime. The word, gimlet, is taken from a barrel-boring device by that name that’s shipped with lime-juice casks to the British colonies.
Ingredients:
6 parts vodka
1 part fresh lime juice
1 part Rose’s Lime Juice
Garnish
1 lime wedge
Instructions
Rinse glass, then fill with ice. Meanwhile Combine liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.
Notes:
The Gimlet has been remaking the rounds in New York.
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