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Juliet & Romeo

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.

Cocktail summary

Posted by endless_optimism on 7/11/2010

Created by

Toby Maloney, The Violet Hour, Chicago

Is an

authentic recipe

Reference

http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2012/05/james-be…

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User rating

4.5 stars

(32 ratings)

Yields Drink

Gin, Bitters, Lime juice, Simple syrup, Rose water, Cucumber, Mint, Salt

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Cocktail

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From other users

Labor intensive, but well worth making. A nice blend of cucumber, mint, rose water, and lime. Used 2.25 oz Beefeater. Might use Tanqueray 10 next time. Rate 5.0
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 balanced. Gave more drops of ango on top, nice visual as it hits the drink. Delicious! — ★★★★★
Insanely refreshing, floral, and TASTY
Very nice. One person I served this too thought it was too salty. Smaller pinch?
Best cucumber martini ever.
an Eastside Cocktail + salt, rose water, bitters
Not bad, but the cucumber, rose and mint conflict each other. Any one of them could be dropped. — ★★★

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Comments

ShakeAndDestroy commented on 1/28/2013:

source: http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2012/05/james-be…

Zachary Pearson commented on 1/28/2013:

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.

Murasaki commented on 7/07/2020:

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.

drinkingandthinking commented on 7/14/2022:

Not as exciting as I expected. Lime overpowers, rose and mint are lost and I went heavy on both.