{"id":86,"date":"2005-07-06T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=86"},"modified":"2005-09-23T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T00:25:28","slug":"the-perfect-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/07\/the-perfect-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect G&<\/span>T"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Sally vis\u00adited us from Mel\u00adbourne for about 10 days. I\u2019ve known Sally for half my life; we met when I was study\u00ading at Mel\u00adbourne Uni\u00adver\u00adsity. Sally received the Gin Award from Rolland House, the hostel where we lived, so she\u2019s been study\u00ading the sub\u00adject for some years and has par\u00adlayed her know\u00adledge into a career organ\u00adiz\u00ading ban\u00adquets and func\u00adtions for the Athen\u00adaeum Club<\/a>, a private gen\u00adtle\u00admen\u2019s club (think P.G. Wode\u00adhouse and Jeeves). I talked Sally into writ\u00ading down how to make the per\u00adfect G&<\/span>T for pos\u00adter\u00adity, and here it is.<\/p>\n

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At the end of a long hot day on the road every doc\u00adtor should pre\u00adscribe a G&<\/span>T<\/acronym> to restore one\u2019s pos\u00adit\u00adive out\u00adlook on life. The pre\u00adpar\u00ada\u00adtion of the per\u00adfect G&<\/span>T does how\u00adever take some effort and even more research. Like many things in life it is all a mat\u00adter of taste but to help in the research phase I will share some of my own per\u00adson\u00adal find\u00adings gained over some 23 years.<\/p>\n

Select a high\u00adball glass made from a glass that is on the finer side as I think it improves the taste. It is pos\u00adsible to mix a G&<\/span>T in an old fash\u00adioned glass but this requires refills more often.<\/p>\n

Add ice, which is import\u00adant to main\u00adtain the tem\u00adper\u00adat\u00adure, to the bot\u00adtom of the glass (prob\u00adably more import\u00adant on the 3rd or 4th glass as these tend to last longer).<\/p>\n

Add the Gin. This is the ele\u00adment that requires extens\u00adive research. My per\u00adson\u00adal favour\u00adite is Bom\u00adbay Sap\u00adphire which has an herb\u00adaceous and com\u00adplex fla\u00advour but I would encour\u00adage you to sample as many types as pos\u00adsible. Just like a good scotch or wine there are many fla\u00advour com\u00adbin\u00ada\u00adtions. Gor\u00addons is really light and crisp, it isn\u2019t very com\u00adplex or herb\u00adaceous. Tan\u00adqueray is quite lem\u00adony and a bit sharp\u00ader and more bitter.<\/p>\n

The amount required tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adally is 30ml but I have found that it some\u00adtimes depends on how much pos\u00adit\u00adive out\u00adlook you require. Once again this also takes some research to get it right and will depend on the gin of choice.<\/p>\n

The ton\u00adic is often much under-estim\u00adated and is worthy of the time and effort of get\u00adting a bet\u00adter qual\u00adity and hav\u00ading a few bottles in the fridge for those emer\u00adgency situ\u00adations. I usu\u00adally sug\u00adgest the small 300ml splits as they are one use and avoid the dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment of a half-used flat bottle. I prefer Schweppes. Do your\u00adself a favour and don\u2019t get the diet style, after all this is for medi\u00adcin\u00adal pur\u00adposes. Dur\u00ading my time in Canada I have found the Canada Dry style of ton\u00adic water is a very good substitute. <\/p>\n

The per\u00adfect G&<\/span>T should have a half slice of lem\u00adon or lime to fin\u00adish it off, I prefer lime with my Bom\u00adbay gin but if I can\u00ad\u2019t get it then lem\u00adon. I use lem\u00adon with Tan\u00adqueray or Gordons. <\/p>\n

Take the per\u00adfect G&<\/span>T out onto the porch and con\u00adsume till your pos\u00adit\u00adive out\u00adlook on life has been restored.<\/p>\n

This has been a life-long pro\u00adject and I have spent many hours of research to get to this point. I hope this has inspired you to start your own research project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Sally has the recipe for the per\u00adfect gin and tonic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}