The second iteration of the White Lady was comprised of gin, lemon juice, and triple sec, in equal proportions. The cocktail was shaken and served up with the occasional addition of an egg white ...

Sugar-coated lemon hard candies may have inspired this 1970s cocktail, but the four-ingredient Lemon Drop follows a classic sour template, combining vodka, triple-sec orange liqueur, freshly ...

I prefer to point out that gin, orange liqueur, and lemon juice is called a White Lady, a precise and delicious classic cocktail from the 1930s, so technically, the Lemon Drop is a White Lady with ...

Combine 2 oz. vodka, ¾ oz. Cointreau, 1 oz. fresh lemon juice, and ½ oz. simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is very cold ...

The Lemon Drop is a peculiar drink. It is trapped, in a way, in a purgatory of its own making, because they’re two seemingly contradictory facts about the Lemon Drop, and they’re true at the ...

Instructions: To make the sugar syrup, add 200 g (7 oz) of caster sugar and 100 ml (1/3 cup + 2 tablespoons) of water into a saucepan and simmer over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved.

There’s an assumption that anyone who orders a lemon drop—a cocktail consisting of vodka, triple sec, lemon juice and simple syrup—at a bar doesn’t know what they’re doing, ...

Or try lemon sorbet, as in the Italian Sgroppino, a slushy, crowd-pleasing cocktail, where its acidity and sweetness offset vodka’s bite. A final hit of zest on top lends an immediate lemon aroma.