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Highball · Stirred · Historical · complexity 1/5

Spider

Spider is a simple long drink of gin, lemonade, and ice, with the fuller punch-family version later noting citronelle as an improvement.

gin · lemonade · light · american · refreshing · casual

Served in Glass. Ice: Lump ice.

Variants (1)

Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1869, p.197) — Terrington 1869

1 gillgin base
0.5 pintice — lumps of iceother
1 bottlelemonade other
  1. Combine the gin and lemonade over the lumps of ice and serve.

Ice: Lump ice

The overlap with the later gin-punch alias is useful evidence of naming fluidity in the period.

This short version reads more like a quick cooler than a formal punch.

See also: Stone Fence, Gin Punch a la Terrington, Gin Punch a la Garrick

Terrington presents both a short miscellaneous Spider and a later 'Gin Punch, or Spider' appendix variant.