The Bar-tender's Guide: How to mix all kinds of plain and fancy drinks (1887)
by Jerry Thomas
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Gin Smash.

(Use small bar-glass.)

  • Take 1 tea-spoonful of fine white sugar.
  • Take 2 tea-spoonfuls of water.
  • Take 1 wine-glass of gin.
  • Take 3 or 4 sprigs of tender mint.

Put the mint in the glass, then the sugar and water. Mash the mint to extract the flavor, add the gin, and fill up the glass with shaved ice. Stir up well, and ornament with two or three fresh sprigs of mint.