Drink · 2 min · Amounts not specified
Lillet and tonic
Lillet over ice with tonic and a thick slice of orange. Low in alcohol and the best thing to hand somebody at five in the afternoon.
The sheet · 1 wine glass · 2 min
easyWhy tonight. Lillet over ice with tonic and a thick slice of orange. Low in alcohol and the best thing to hand somebody at five in the afternoon.
What it needs
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- lillet
- tonic
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: orange.
Method
- 2 oz Lillet blanc over plenty of ice in a wine glass, topped with tonic.
- Lillet is wine and it oxidizes. Keep the bottle in the fridge and finish it inside a month, or this drink will taste stale and you will blame the tonic.
- Orange peel expressed over the top, or a cucumber ribbon.
- Around eight percent alcohol in the glass, which is the point.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- lillet
- Fortified and aromatized wine, lightly bitter and citrusy, and it is perishable like vermouth.
- tonic
- Bitter and sweet at once, so it is a mixer with an opinion.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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