Tom Collins

Name: Tom Collins
Ingredients: 2 oz gin; ¾ oz lemon juice; ¾ oz simple syrup; 3–4 oz soda water; orange slice and a cherry

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This is a gin sour with soda water in it. Shake everything but the soda and top it in the glass, because bubbles don't survive a shaker. It's what I pour at two in the afternoon, which is how two in the afternoon becomes five.

Ingredients

Where there's a range: the low end is lighter, the high end is fuller.

2 ozgin
¾ ozlemon juice
¾ ozsimple syrup
3–4 ozsoda water

Garnish

orange slice and a cherry

Method

Add liquid ingredients (with the exception of the soda water) and ice, seal and shake hard. Strain into a tall glass over fresh ice and top with 3-4oz soda water, and add garnish.