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South Side Cocktail

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A south side or southside is an alcoholic beverage made with gin, lime juice, simple syrup and mint. A variant, the southside fizz, adds soda water. Its origins are subject to speculation; it has been alternatively proposed that it gets its name from either the South Side district of the city of Chicago, or from the Southside Sportsmen's Club on Long Island.

Yield 1

Ingredients

  • 10–12 mint leaves
  • 2 oz gin
  • ¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • ¾ oz simple syrup

Instructions

  1. 1
    Combine all ingredients except mint into a cocktail shaker, fill shaker with ice, and shake well.
  2. 2
    Open shaker and add mint, leaving 1 mint leaf around the size of your thumb for garnish.
  3. 3
    Close cocktail shaker and roll the mint from one end of the shaker to the other to gently express the mint oils but to not bruise the mint.
  4. 4
    Use a hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer to filter the contents into a chilled cocktail coupe.
  5. 5
    Garnish with the spare mint leaf you left aside.
Category
Beverages

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:South_Side_Cocktail