Recipes

Gibson Martini

Ingredients

2 oz Gin London Dry
1/2 oz Noilly Prat dry vermouth
2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Noilly Prat dry vermouth

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Stir & Strain

1. Fill a mixing glass with ice.

2. Add vodka or gin, and dry vermouth.

3. Stir.

4. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

5. Garnish with pearl onions.

Variation

MARTINI NAME VARIATION
Cajun: garnish with a chili pepper.

Dirty: add 1 tsp of olive brine .

Black eye: garnish with black olives.

Wet: add extra vermouth.

Gibson Martini

When garnished with pearl onions, the cocktail ( gin or vodka ) is known as a Gibson martini. There are a few stories about the origin of the Gibson. One of the stories is that Charles Dana Gibson, the famed illustrator and creator of the Gibson Girl dropped into The Players, his New York club, and asked the bartender Charley Connolly to mix him “a better martini”. Connolly simply exchanged an onion for the olive and dubbed it the Gibson. Classic martinis are stirred ( not shaken ) for appearance. Stirring will produce a crystal clear drink without a hazy effect. We used Noilly Pratt French vermouth because it is one of the driest on the market.

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Gibson Martini