Lemon Drop
ClassicIBA OfficialA candied lemon, served up.
ClassicPartyRefreshingCitrusy
3 minEasyBalanced
Bright and sweet-tart. Fresh lemon and orange-y triple sec over clean vodka, balanced by sugar and framed by a candy-sweet rim — dessert in a glass.
Ingredients
- 2 oz Vodka
- 0.75 oz Triple Sec
- 0.75 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
- 0.5 oz Simple Syrup
- Sugar rim · optional garnish
- Lemon twist · optional garnish
Method
- 1
Rim a chilled martini glass with sugar.
- 2
Add the vodka, triple sec, lemon juice, and simple syrup to a shaker with ice.
- 3
Shake until well-chilled.
- 4
Strain into the prepared glass and garnish with a lemon twist.
The Story
A San Francisco invention often credited to Norman Jay Hobday's bar Henry Africa's in the 1970s. A sweet-tart vodka sour dressed up with a sugared rim, it rode the martini-glass craze of the 1990s into cocktail-menu ubiquity.
Glass · Martini glassGarnish · Sugar rim, Lemon twist
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