White Lady

WHITE LADY

Hello everyone! It's Cocktail Monday (I just made that one up, but it seemed fitting at the moment :D) and two weeks left of my mammoth nine weeks of combined summer/paternity holiday. It's always fun to make classic drinks and this one belongs to the family. I present you the White Lady. Now, different sources will give you different ratios of how much ingredients you should have in this cocktail (not to mention IBA's "official" ratios). In addition to that, the Finnish alcohol laws prohibit using more than 4 cl of raw alcohol per drink (with exceptions), so what we'll have is two following ratios. The Finnish bar ratio and the one I used (for that little extra oompf and love):

• 1:1:1 ratio = 2 cl gin, cointreau, lemon juice (Finnish version) AND this version

• 4.5 cl gin
• 2 cl cointreau
• 2 cl lemon juice

Some sources will also imply the use of egg white, but it is not necessary. Should you use it, remember to dry shake before adding ice.

So what you want to do is add the ingredients to the shaker, add ice and shake it like you mean it! Strain into your (at this point it is safe to assume the cocktail ware is well chilled before use) cocktail glass and garnish. You could either use a lemon twist or a stemmed cocktail cherry; it adds nice aesthetics (albeit not being opposite colors). Serve.

I liked it! With the (more added) gin it wasn't as sweet, had that bite to it and of course the beauty of it, using your favorite gin this cocktail has a lot of potential to suit one's taste!