Drink · 12 min · Amounts not specified
Ramos gin fizz
Gin, both citruses, cream, egg white and soda, shaken for a genuinely long time. The twelve-minute shake is folklore; two hard minutes is real.
The sheet · 1 tall glass · 12 min
involvedWhy tonight. Gin, both citruses, cream, egg white and soda, shaken for a genuinely long time. The twelve-minute shake is folklore; two hard minutes is real.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- gin
- lemon
- lime
- simple syrup
- cream
- eggs
- soda
Method
- 2 oz gin, ½ oz lemon, ½ oz lime, ¾ oz simple syrup, 1 oz cream, one egg white, three drops of orange flower water.
- Dry shake for a long time. Then shake with ice for longer than you believe — the original bar employed a line of men to do it in shifts.
- Strain into a chilled glass with no ice, rest it thirty seconds, then pour soda down the middle to lift the head.
- It is a ridiculous amount of work for one drink and it is worth doing once so you understand what texture in a cocktail actually means.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
The technique underneath this
- Building a sourSpirit, citrus and sugar in a fixed geometry, then adjusted for how strong the particular bottle in front of you is.thin and sharp · cloying · spirit disappears · no foam
- VinaigretteDispersing fat into acid so it stays dispersed for as long as dinner takes, which is all it has to do.separates immediately · greasy · too sharp · dull
Going wrong while you cook it? Say what it is doing and the triage will tell you what is happening, the smallest move, and the instinct to resist.
Watch the technique behind this one
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- Syrups and citrusHow to Make Fresh Juice for CocktailsEpicuriousJuicing citrus fresh for drinks, and the plain reason bottled juice does not work.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Cocktail structureHow to make a great Whiskey Sour - MasterclassBehind the BarA whiskey sour with egg white, including the dry shake that the foam depends on.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Cocktail structureBasic Cocktails - How To Make A DaiquiriCocktail ChemistryThe plainest sour there is, which makes base-acid-sweet balance easy to taste rather than merely read.197K+ views at the September 2026 review. · Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- gin
- Botanicals over a neutral base, and every bottle draws its own map — juniper-forward gin makes a bracing drink, a softer modern one makes a floral one.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- simple syrup
- Sugar already dissolved, which is the only form of sugar that works in a cold drink.
- cream
- Fat that carries flavor and will not split the way milk does, which is why it can be reduced hard.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- soda
- Carbonation is a texture and it is the first thing you lose.
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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