| 2 | oz | Gin, Beefeater |
| 3⁄4 | oz | Lime juice |
| 3⁄4 | oz | Simple syrup |
| 3 | dr | Rose water |
| 3 | dr | Bitters, Angostura |
| 3 | sli | Cucumber |
| 3 | spg | Mint |
| 1 | pn | Salt |
Instructions
Muddle cucumber, salt. Slap the mint. Add rest of ingredients. Let sit for 30 seconds (time allowing). Shake. Strain. Garnish with 1 floating mint leaf and 1 drop rose water on top of leaf, and 3-5 more drops of angostura on the surface of the drink.
From other users
- Not bad, but the cucumber, rose and mint conflict each other. Any one of them could be dropped.
- an Eastside Cocktail + salt, rose water, bitters
- Delicious! Even when you realize halfway through making the drink that you're out of rosewater (seriously, how do you go through a whole bottle of rosewater?) and you have to use orange flower water instead.
- Very nice. One person I served this too thought it was too salty. Smaller pinch?
- Best cucumber martini ever.
- Very balanced. Gave more drops of ango on top, nice visual as it hits the drink. Delicious!
- Insanely refreshing, floral, and TASTY
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3 Comments
source:
Submitted by ShakeAndDestroy on
source: http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2012/05/james-bea...
Thanks for the citation.
Submitted by Zachary Pearson on
Thanks for the citation. Updated source per zombijosue. Added brand of gin and corrected the amount of mint from 6 to 3 springs to conform to cited recipe.
I don’t know if this should
Submitted by Murasaki on
I don’t know if this should be a curation request (too many years spent lurking without making an account). But per Toby Maloney the pinch of salt should more specifically be 15-20 grains of kosher salt. This can also be made with Hendricks but at 2.5 oz.
citation: https://forums.egullet.org/topic/104181-the-violet-hour/page/9/
For early cocktails from The Violet Hour, I would suggest checking LTHforum or egullet too.