Strain the cocktail:. Top with club soda and garnish:. Rate This Recipe. I don't like this at all. It's not the worst. Sure, this will do. I'm a fan—would recommend. I love it! Thanks for your rating! Show Full Recipe. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for SimplyRecipes. Collins glasses are tall and round and usually have a capacity of 12 to 16 ounces to their brim. Embury, describes the Collins as being " a lemonade made with charged water and spiked with gin or some other liquor.
During recent years, however, numerous cousins have appeared on the scene - Pedro, Pierre, Sandy, Mike, Jack, the Colonel and several others whose first names have not yet been officially recorded in the baptismal registry. With one school it was simply substituted for Old Tom gin in the Tom Collins.
The other school, however, preferred to retain the Tom Collins name for the original drink made with Old Tom gin and, since Holland gin was practically never used any more in a Collins, they transferred the John Collins to the Collins made with London dry gin.
This accounts for the confusion that exists in present-day books of recipes. In some the Tom recipe calls for Old Tom gin and the John recipe for dry gin, in others the Tom recipe calls for dry gin and the John recipe for Holland gin. Actually, of course, Old Tom gin is merely a sweetened London gin. Consequently, we can make our Tom Collins with either Old Tom or London dry gin, but, if Old Tom gin is used the quantity of sugar should be reduced by about a half.
The 'coffee house' of Limmer's Hotel was a true dive bar, popular with sporting types during the 19th century, and famous, according to the s memoirs of a Captain Gronow a Victorian writer of four observational tomes for its Gin Punch as early as It would appear that the Collins morphed from the Gin Punch, a very popular drink of the day. Frank always drinks my gin punch when he smokes. It could be that the special gin-punch for which John Collins of Limmer's was famous went on to become known as the Tom Collins when it was made using Old Tom gin.
If those components are served in a tall glass with ice and topped with soda, then they create a collins. For example, a whiskey sour is served in a sour glass or other short glass and is a simple mix of whiskey, lemon, and syrup.
If that same blend is poured into a collins glass over ice and topped with soda, a John Collins is born. This easy association can be applied to the majority of the most common sour cocktails and with almost any base spirit. The Tom Collins and gin sour both have gin; the vodka collins and vodka sour, vodka; the tequila collins and tequila sour, tequila. The ingredient ratios can be tweaked a little bit to accommodate taste. That is the beauty of any sour: you can always make it your own with a few simple adjustments.
Sours are expansive, and the list is nearly endless. Recipe Summary test prep:. Nutrition Info. Ingredients Decrease Serving 1.
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