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Sour · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Mint Spray Cocktail

Cheerio's Mint Spray Cocktail shakes gin and orange juice with powdered sugar and serves it mint-garnished.

gin-forward · orange · minty · before-dinner

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Ice.

Variants (1)

Cheerio! A Book of Punches and Cocktails by Charles (1928, p.16)

1 partorange juice acid
1 partgin base
ice — Add ice.other
0.5 teaspoonfulpowdered sugar sweetener
  1. Add the gin, orange juice, powdered sugar, and ice to a shaker.
  2. Shake thoroughly, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with fresh mint, and serve.

Garnish: Fresh mint

Ice: Ice

See also: Orange Blossom Special, Mint Julep