All Easy Recipes. Cook all that you can cook. Tom Collins
 
What You Need:            (To make 1 tall drink)
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  • 1 ounce fresh lemon juice
  • 3 ounces gin
  • 1½ teaspoons superfine sugar
  • 2 ice cubes
  • 6 ounces cold club soda
  • 1 slice orange (optional)
  • 1 maraschino cherry (optional)
  • A Tom Collins glass

    • How To Cook:
    1. Place the lemon juice, gin and sugar in the Tom Collins glass and stir with a bar spoon to dissolve the sugar.

    2. Add the ice cubes, fill the glass with cold soda, and stir briefly.

    3. Garnish the drink, if you like, with an orange slice and/or a cherry.

    4. Rum is the liquor most frequently substituted for gin - and the drink is then called a rum Collins - but applejack, bourbon, brandy, blended whiskey, Scotch or vodka can be also substituted.

    5. With bourbon or blended whiskey, the drink is called a John Collins.

    		 
    		 
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