How To Make An Aviation Cocktail

How To Make An Aviation Cocktail

Aviation Cocktail. This gin-based cocktail is London sophistication in a glass! Follow Diego Garcia, Head bartender at the Oxo Tower, to give your dinner party a touch of class! Taste our Aviation Cocktail.

---

Step 1:

You will need

• 1 Slice of lemon
• some Some sugar
• 50 ml gin
• 25 ml lemon juice
• 25 ml maraschino liqueur
• 5 ml gomme (sugar) syrup
• some ice cubes
• 1 Cocktail shaker
• 1 Cocktail strainer
• 1 Martini glass
• 1 25ml (1fl oz) shot measure
• 1 50ml (2fl oz) shot measure
• 1 Measuring Jug
• 1 Measuring spoons
• 1 5ml bar spoon

---

Step 2:

Sugar-coat the glass

To begin, rub a slice of lemon around the rim of the martini glass, then dip the rim in a plate of sugar and slowly rotate the glass so that it is completely coated.

---

Step 3:

Gin

Next add 50ml of gin to the mixing glass

---

Step 4:

Lemon Juice

25ml of lemon juice

---

Step 5:

Maraschino

25ml of Maraschino

---

Step 6:

Sugar

And 5ml of sugar gomme

---

Step 7:

Ice

Now, fill the mixing glass with ice

---

Step 8:

Shake

Put the other half of the cocktail shaker on. Slap it down firmly to seal. Hold the top and bottom, shake vigorously for about 20 seconds.

Handy Hint

When there is condensation on the outside of the shaker, and it feels very cold, then it's mixed.

---

Step 9:

Release

Tap the side of the shaker to loosen the two halves.

---

Step 10:

Strain

Now strain the cocktail into the martini glass.

Serve