Lemon Drop cocktail

Lemon Drop

• 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

Lemon Drop (Liquor.com version)

Ingredients

• 2 ounces vodka
• 1/2 ounce triple sec
• 1 ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• Garnish: sugar rim
• Ice for shaker.

Glassware

• Cocktail Glass

Construction

• 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 simple syrup to a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
• Strain into the prepared glass.

See also

• https://www.liquor.com/recipes/lemon-drop/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_drop_(cocktail)