The Bennett Cocktail

The short bubble glass filled with the lime cocktail with a lime wheel in it - square

The Bennett cocktail recipe is delightfully refreshing and perfectly balanced for a simple gin cocktail that guarantees to impress your guests! Just add gin, lime juice, simple syrup, and bitters.

Course Cocktails

Cuisine Cocktails

Keyword bennett cocktail, gin cocktail

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings Cocktail

Calories 228kcal

Author Elaine Benoit

Equipment

Ingredients

4 ounces gin I use dry gin
2 ounce lime juice
2 ounce simple syrup
6 drops angostura bitters 6 - 8 drops

Garnish

2 lime wheels

Instructions

Fill cocktail shaker halfway with ice
Add gin, lime juice, simple syrup and bitters. Cap shaker and shake for 30 seconds
4 ounces gin, 2 ounce lime juice, 2 ounce simple syrup, 6 drops angostura bitters
Strain contents between two martini glasses and add lime wheels
2 lime wheels
Sip
Sigh
Enjoy

Notes

How to make Simple Syrup:

Put 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar in a sauce pan. Heat on medium until it boils and then set a timer for 5 minutes.

Let cool until either using it in a cocktail or packaging it up in a ball jar.

Helpful Tips

Whenever you juice citrus and/or use lime as a garnish, make sure to wash the fruit. Here's how: You can either use a cloth specifically used for washing fruit and vegetables. It's coarse on one side and smooth on the other. The coarse part is great for scrubbing the skin and the smooth side is good for shining the fruit.

If you don't have the cloth, you can squirt some unscented, natural hand soap in your palm and rub the skin of the fruit between your hands. Thoroughly rinse the fruit under cold water.

Any gin will work with this cocktail, but I love using a London dry gin.

I have a bunch of different flavored bitters, but the best one to use in this cocktail is the aromatic bitters like the brand Angostura.

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