Earl Grey MarTEAni
Shake hard 10 seconds, strain, straight up, cocktail glass half-rimmed with sugar, garnish
Infuse 750ml Tanqueray gin with 4 T (17 g) loose Earl Grey tea for 2 hours, fine sieve or filter, refrigerate.
This cocktail garnered attention when the New York officials cited Pegu Club for serving raw egg without notice, despite notice on the cocktail menu.
- Extremely tea-ike. Gin will infuse well if you do 3 drinks worth of gin and a single tea bag for 20 min
- Outrageously good
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Added egg white, instructions for making infusion, references, and history.
I weighed 4 T at 17 g, using Earl Grey from Camellia's Tea Shop in London.
Curious that Saunders's original instructions don't involve dry shaking the egg white, but that's probably a good idea.