Gin Sling Recipes

SINGAPORE SLING

Steps:

• Pour the gin, cherry brandy and Benedictine into a mixing glass or a jug. Add the ice and Angostura bitters. Stir well until the outside of the glass feels cold.
• Pour the mix into a tall glass, then add the pineapple juice and lime juice and stir gently. Top up with sparkling water and garnish.

THE RAFFLES HOTEL ORIGINAL SINGAPORE GIN SLING COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Shake with ice.
• Strain into an ice filled collins glass.
• Garnish with cherry and slice of pineapple.
• SINGAPORE SLING.
• The Singapore Sling was created at Raffles Hotel at the turn-of-the-century by Hainanese-Chinese bartender, Mr. Ngiam Tong Boon.
• In the Hotel's museum, visitors may view the safe in which Mr. Ngiam locked away his precious recipe books, as well as the Sling recipe hastily jotted on a bar-chit in 1936 by a visitor to the Hotel who asked the waiter for it.
• Originally, the Singapore Sling was meant as a woman's drink, hence the attractive pink colour. Today, it is very definately a drink enjoyed by all, without which any visit to Raffles Hotel is incomplete.
• Metric Measurements as printed on the orginal raffles Hotel menu.
• 30ml Gin.
• 15 ml Cherry Brandy.
• 120 ml Pineapple Juice.
• 15 ml Lime Juice.
• 7.5 ml Cointreau.
• 7.5 ml Dom Benedictine.
• 10 ml Grenadine.
• A Dash of Angostura Bitters.
• Garnish with a slice of Pineapple and Cherry.

SINGAPORE SLING

Steps:

• Add the gin, Benedictine, Grand Marnier, cherry liqueur, pineapple juice, lime juice and bitters into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
• Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice, and top with the club soda.
• Garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

GIN SLING

Steps:

• Put the gin, lemon juice, sugar syrup and bitters into a cocktail shaker and add a large handful of ice. Shake to combine and strain into a tall glass filled with more ice.
• Top up with equal parts tonic and soda water, or pine soda. Garnish with a rosemary sprig and lemon wedge.

GIN SLING

Steps:

• Fill an old-fashioned glass with ice. Add gin, vermouth, and bitters and top off with seltzer. Stir and serve with a lemon twist.

BITTERED GIN SLING

Steps:

• Put ice in a cocktail shaker. Pour in gin, vermouth, lemon juice, simple syrup, bitters. Shake well. Add ice to a highball glass. Strain cocktail into highball glass, top off with club soda, and garnish with lemon peel.