Floradora
A fresh, fruity gin highball with sharp lime, sweet raspberry and the peppery fizz of ginger beer.
Ingredients
- London Dry gin50 ml
- Lime juice, freshly squeezed25 ml
- Raspberry syrup, homemade, ideally20 ml
- Ginger beertop up
- Raspberry, to garnish (optional)3 whole
- Lime, to garnish (optional)1 wheel
Method
- If you like, muddle a few fresh raspberries in the bottom of the shaker for extra flavour.
- Add the gin, lime juice and raspberry syrup.
- Fill the shaker with ice and shake hard for 10–15 seconds, until ice-cold.
- Strain into a Collins glass filled with fresh ice.
- Top up with ginger beer.
- Garnish with fresh raspberries and a lime wheel.
About this drink
The Floradora has its roots on early twentieth-century Broadway and takes its name from Florodora, the hit musical that arrived there in 1900. The drink was part of the bar culture of the day, when gin, raspberry and ginger went hand in hand with the glitter and glamour of the stage. Today it lives on as one of the most elegant ways to pair botanical gin with fruity sweetness and spicy fizz.
Questions and answers
What kind of drink is a Floradora?
Gin, lime and raspberry syrup topped with ginger beer. It resembles a Moscow Mule made with gin and a berry twist, but it is actually older: named after a musical from 1900, decades before the Moscow Mule existed.
Can you use fresh raspberries instead of syrup?
Muddle a few extra raspberries in the bottom of the shaker, as the recipe already suggests, for a fresher, less sweet version. Keep the syrup for the basic sweetness.
