How To Make The Singapore Sling
Today on Booze On The Rocks, we make the Singapore Sling cocktail served at the Raffles Hotel. Created by Chinese-born Ngiam Tong Boon in 1915 at the Long Bar in the Raffles Hotel, the Singapore Sling has passed the test of time. Although there are now, many versions found all over the world. Gin, Grand Marnier, cherry liqueur, herbal liqueur (typically Benedictine), pineapple, lime, bitters, and club soda are the main ingredients in this complex drink. The recipe was first made public in Harry Craddock's masterpiece The Savoy Cocktail Book, released in 1930. It became the subject of subsequent recipes, and by 1948, David A. Embury claimed in his book The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks that no two published recipes were identical. The Singapore Sling is sophisticated, subtle, and ingredient-heavy at its best. It also begs for investigation, and s s a result, broad notes and nostalgia serve as the foundation for most traditional cocktail variations. Many contemporary variations tend to be excessively sugary beverages that depend more on grenadine and pineapple juice than on herbal liqueurs and fresh citrus. This recipe is as authentic to the original as one can make it. Try it out and let me know what you think.
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SINGAPORE SLING
Dry Gin 1 oz/30 ml
Cherry Liqueur .5 oz/15 ml
Orange Liqueur .25 oz/7.5 ml
DOM Benedictine .25 oz/7.5 ml
Angostura Bitters 1 Dash
4 oz/120 ml Pineapple Juice
.5 oz/15 ml Lime Juice
.3 oz/10 ml Grenadine
Method
1. Add all of the ingredients to a shaker tin.
2. Shake with ice for 10-15 seconds.
3. Fine strain into a Hurricane glass over fresh ice.
4. Garnish with a pineapple chunk and cocktail cherry perched on the righht side of the glass.
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Singapore Sling Cocktail Recipe from the Raffles Hotel, Singapore
How to make a Singapore Sling
Cocktail recipe:
The Singapore Sling is a variation on a classic Gin Sling and was first created around 1915 at the Long Bar in the Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
And again, there are many different recipes and opinions on how to make the perfect Singapore Sling but this is one of my favourites.
Take note that the recipe calls for cherry brandy - I'd recommend using Cherry Heering (a deep red cherry liqueur, sweet and a more natural cherry taste) or kirsch (a clear coloured cherry brandy, slightly bitter due to the pitts that are also used).
Marashino liqueur will impart less cherry flavour, a few herbal notes and some slight bitterness.
I mention in the video that the maraschino liqueur was sweeter, when in fact the Cherry Heering is...my bad!
Can Cherry Heering, Kirsch and Luxardo Maraschino be substituted for one another? Find out...
INGREDIENTS
- 45mL Gin (1.5oz)
- 30mL Cherry Brandy (1oz)
- 7.5mL Dom Benectine (1/4oz)
- 7.5mL Cointreau (1/4oz)
- 7.5mL Housemade Grenadine (1/4oz)
- 60mL Pineapple Juice (2oz)
- 7.5mL Fresh Lime Juice (1/4oz)
- Dash of Bitters
How to make grenadine:
HOW TO
1. Add all the ingredients to your cocktail shaker
2. Shake and strain over fresh ice
3. Garnish with an orange wheel and cherry
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How To Make a Singapore Sling - Cocktail Recipe
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How To Make a Singapore Sling
Hi I’m Damian one of the Bartender over at Liquid Kitty in West LA California and we’re gonna talk a little bit about the Singapore Sling.
It’s a, interesting drink because supposedly develop in 1915 in Raffles Hotel in Singapore by a Chinese bartender whose name I can’t pronounce that’s the folklore about it, nobody really knows if that’s true or not or where it came from but it’s basically a base drink with a lot sweeteners on it, rest of the folklore goes to that there’s no two recipes are the same and so at the Kitty came up with the recipe that supposedly the original recipe but it’s tough to say because you go in any bars restaurant and you never gonna be the same to drinks but they will be similar in that Gin, Lime Juice, and cherry brandy which is the three main ingredients, we start with Napoli Grande Glass, which is the closest thing we have to Hurricane glass, we’ll fill that with ice, today will be using the Beefeater Gin, about two and a half ounce of Beefeater five count depending on where you at, Cherry Brandy will be the second ingredient which is even about an ounce and a half with cherry brandy, Cointreau which is an orange base liquor and Benedictine which is an old monk recipe liquor a little less than an ounce, Grenadine just a splash of color couple dashes of bitters and i’m gonna put some fresh squeeze limes in there, it’s about half a lime i’ll cut the line in half cut it in a smaller parts to a takee it easier to squeeze, we’ll finish it of with pineapple juice and i’ll shake the whole thing up, mix it up and then garnish it with the cherry and a large straw and that’s you traditional Singapore Sling, it’s close that I can get to the original recipe.
HOW TO MAKE - SINGAPORE SLING Gin Based Cocktail
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How to Make The Singapore Sling - Best Drink Recipes
The Singapore Sling is a South-East Asian cocktail. This long drink was developed sometime before 1915. by Ngiam Tong Boon, a Hainanese bartender working at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel Singapore. It was initially called the gin sling, - a sling was originally an American drink composed of spirit and water, sweetened and flavored.
D. A. Embury stated in the Fine Art of Mixing Drinks: Of all the recipes published for [this drink] I have never seen any two that were alike. The Times described the original recipe as mixing two measures of gin with one of cherry brandy and one of orange, pineapple and lime juice. An alternative original recipe used gin, Cherry Heering, Bénédictine, and fresh pineapple juice, primarily from Sarawak pineapples which enhance the flavor and create a foamy top.
The hotel's recipe was recreated based on the memories of former bartenders and written notes that they discovered regarding the original recipe.
Recipes published in articles about Raffles Hotel before the 1970s are significantly different from current recipes, and Singapore Slings drunk elsewhere in Singapore differ from the recipe used at Raffles Hotel.
By the 1980s, the Singapore Sling was often little more than gin, bottled sweet and sour, and grenadine. With the move towards fresh juices and the re-emergence of quality products like Cherry Heering, the cocktail has begun to resemble its original version.
Tiki Cocktail: Singapore Sling
In this video I'm doing the Singapore Sling recipe I learned when I first began bartending and it is delicious. Now I know there are many other variations and there are some prominent bartenders who claim their specs are the right ones as far as the Raffel's version. Honestly I don't know where the specs for mine came from and I will probably be doing some videos on those variations in the future, so before you jump all over my version as wrong I beseech you to taste it yourself!
The Singapore Sling was purportedly invented by a bartender named Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffels Hotel in 1915. The inspiration for the cocktail came to him when he observed that while the men at his bar chose to drink Gin or Whiskey, the ladies were confined to drinking fruit drinks and teas. The Singapore Sling was his bid to create a drink especially for the ladies. Soon word spread far and wide making the drink more and more popular. Ngiam wanted to keep the recipe a secret so he locked it up in a safe (so only he would have access to it) and when he passed away, the bartenders were lucky enough to be able to retrieve the recipe from the safe with the help of his relatives. The safe and the recipe were then on display in a glass case at Raffels when the hotel was still in operations.
The Specs:
1.5oz or 45ml Gin
1oz or 30ml Cointreau
.25oz or 15ml Benedictine
1oz or 30ml Pineapple Juice
.75oz or 20ml Lime Juice
Drizzle Cherry Heering
Top Soda water
Luxardo Cherry Garnish
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