Recipe

• 60ml vodka
• 15ml triple sec
• 30ml lemon juice
• 30ml simple syrup
• Garnish: sugar rim

Coat the rim of a cocktail glass with sugar and set aside (do this a few minutes ahead so the sugar can dry and adhere well to the glass). Add the vodka, triple sec, lemon juice and simply syrup to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into the prepared glass.

History

The Lemon Drop first squeezed to life in San Francisco sometime during the 1970s. Its inventor, Norman Jay Hobday, an out-of-work Vietnam vet turned saloon owner, is also credited with opening the country’s first fern bar, a concept that mixed house plants and Tiffany lamps with throngs of upwardly mobile urbanites.

For Reference

• Triple Sec