The Oleo Gimlet
Elevate the traditional gimlet by enhancing the citrus element in the drink with your own oleo syrup using leftover lemon and lime peels.
Serves:
Ingredients
1 dash Saline solution*
0.5oz Fresh lime juice
0.5oz Oleo syrup*
1.5oz Gordon’s Gin
0.5oz Tio Pepe Fino Sherry
1 Twisted lemon peel (Garnish)
Equipment
1 Gimlet glass
1 Muddler
1 Strainer
method
Mix the oleo syrup with 2 dashes of saline solution (adding a touch of umami) lime juice, oleo citrus syrup and add a little Fino Sherry.
Top up with gin.
Garnish with a twisted lemon peel.
*Saline solution (10%)
Add 10g of table salt to 3 oz. of filtered water.
Stir until the salt has dissolved.
*Oleo syrup (2:1) (Creates 5 servings of syrup)
Pour 50g of white granulated sugar into a large container.
Add 3 orange and 3 lemon peels to the container and muddle in the sugar for 3 minutes.
Let the peels and sugar sit for two hours.
Add 1 oz. of filtered water and 0.5 oz. of lime juice to sugar and cook to a simmer until all sugar is dissolved.
Strain peels.
