Gin Fizz

The Gin Fizz is a Cocktail which consists of Gin, Fresh Lemon Juice, Sugar, and Soda water.

Original Recipe

Jerry Thomas (1862)

• Gin Fizz.
• (Use medium bar-glass.)
• Take 1 tea-spoonful of powdered white sugar.
• 3 dashes of Fresh Lemon Juice.
• 1 wine-glass of Holland Gin.
• 1 small piece of Ice.

Fill up the glass with Apollinaris or Seltzer water, stir thoroughly and serve.

Common recipe

Recipe#1: Cocktaildb.com

• Shake in iced cocktail shaker & strain
• 1 oz fresh lemon juice (3 cl, 1/4 gills)
• 1 tsp sugar (4 dashes)
• 1 1/2 oz gin (4.5 cl, 3/8 gills)
• Strain into glass
• Fill with soda
• Stir
• Serve in a highball glass (9.0 oz)

Recipe#2: Dale DeGroff, King Cocktail.

• 2 oz. Tanqueray Gin
• 3/4 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
• 1 oz. Simple Syrup (or 1 tsp. super fine sugar)

Shake and strain into a highball glass with ice. Fill with club soda. No garnish.

Whats the difference between a Gin Fizz and a Tom Collins?

"...the two are identically the same drink, made in the same manner with the same ingredients......"

Fine Art of Mixing Drinks - David A Embury - 1948, page 287