This classic gimlet is made with your choice of gin or vodka lime and simple syrup. It's that easy.
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How to Make a Gimlet – Cocktail Recipe
A simple classic cocktail – just gin (or vodka) lime and sugar – the Gimlet is one of the jewels among classic cocktails with a long history stretching from the high seas to Madison Avenue. Light green lime-forward and exquisite when well balanced this gin sour is as refreshing as it is scurvy-preventing – who wouldn’t want that?
Like any other classic cocktail the gimlet has a handful of competing origin stories. The most credible is its creation in the 1880s by Royal Navy surgeon Sir Thomas Gimlette who encouraged his mates to take their gin rations with a generous splash of scurvy-preventing lime juice. Lauchlin Rose's lime-juice cordial invented just a decade earlier helped make that possible while also sweetening the drink and preserving the citrus.
In terms of origins you could think of the gimlet as a sweet gin rickey (minus the soda water) or another in a long line of descendants of the sour one of the major cocktail families. Originally a 50-50 mix of gin and lime cordial modern preferences for drier (better balanced) drinks have seen the lime cordial portion of the drink decline.
