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Originally Posted by Not Bob's Id
You've clearly never had a Tom Collins, my boy, made by a Mount Holyoke Renaissance Studies major from Cos Cob who is trying to annoy her fiance and her father. There's something delightful about the combination of sunburn, jealousy, August, parental rage, fresh lemon juice and Bombay Saphire.
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Apologies. My Id has an overactive imagination.
However, he is right about the joys of a Tom Collins on a warm day. The local paper ran a feature on "the drinks of summer" (or some such nonsense) a few weeks ago and I decided to make a batch. Yum. I don't recall the exact recipe they ran, but you'll need to tinker with the proportions anyway. Here's how I make them:
(1) Juice one lemon
(2) Add two tablespoons of simple syrup (the only part of the Collins that needs to be done in advance -- the method I use from my memories of bar-back days is to dissolve 1 unit of sugar in 1 unit of boiling water, stirring until clear, and then refrigerate in a glass bottle)
(3) Add a shot and a half of gin
(4) Ice in a tall glass
(5) club soda the rest of the way
(6) drink
(7) Lather, rinse, repeat
