Alaska Cocktail Food

The big question when preparing an Alaska cocktail is the choice of gin. Though most bars make it with London Dry gin, the earliest known recipe for the drink calls for Old Tom gin, a sweeter form of the spirit that was common in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This is the recipe found in "Drinks," a 1913 book by the bartender Jacques Straub, and favored by Jim Kearns, an owner of Slowly Shirley, a cocktail bar in Greenwich Village. "The orange bitters adds a nice, dry, citric note to the end, keeping the cocktail from becoming too sweet," Mr. Kearns said. While Straub's instructions do not call for a lemon twist, Mr. Kearns added it anyway, because it "complements the orange bitters so nicely.

Provided by Robert Simonson

Categories     cocktails

Yield 1 drink

Number Of Ingredients 4

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 234, UnsaturatedFat 0 grams, Carbohydrate 7 grams, Fat 0 grams, Protein 0 grams, SaturatedFat 0 grams, Sodium 3 milligrams, Sugar 7 grams

Gin and yellow Chartreuse are all you need for this sophisticated but lesser-known classic.

Provided by Paul Clarke

Categories     Gin     Cocktail

Time 5m

Yield 1

Number Of Ingredients 3

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 137 kcal, Carbohydrate 0 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Fiber 0 g, Protein 0 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, Sodium 1 mg, Sugar 0 g, Fat 0 g, ServingSize makes 1 cocktail, UnsaturatedFat 0 g