High Society Dame
Recipe:
- 30ml Old Tom gin
- 30ml sloe gin
- 2 dashes orange bitters
Stir everything on ice until sufficiently chilled, strain into your prechilled cocktail glass, garnish with the lemon zest.
Nice little aperitif drink, savory, slightly astringent, tart and slightly sour from the Sloe Gin, slightly sweet countered by the Old Tom. Otherwise, you can find dried berries, juniper, a little candied orange zest, it's really nicely balanced. Nothing earth-shattering, of course, but it's definitely worth trying out and playing around with the brands.
Sounds like another “forgotten drink from old times”, but apart from the entry in Benny Roff's (modern) book, I can't find anything else online. Of course, Mr. Roff may have taken it from an old recipe book somewhere, but unfortunately he doesn't mark the sources of the drinks in “Speakeasy”.
Source: "Speakeasy" by Benny Roff, p. 45
