Hello hello! How are they? We are very anxious and happy because we returned with this series where we alcohol trying luxury drinks and discovered new and interesting things. Today we go back to a classic among the classics, the great Tom Collins that although its creation was more than two centuries ago, its freshness and aroma keep it alive and always fresh to this day.
Gin Tonic fans , who united as force we show the world that not everything in life is Gin Tonic. Well, first we will see what this cocktail is about and we will find out some curiosities around it, then with all that wisdom we will only enjoy it at its right point.
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About Tom Collins
First the first, the gin
We are all gathered, Gin fans. We love him in his thousand presentations and with his thousand variants for more than two centuries throughout humanity.
In this love story, all flowers are taken by the masters of the Geneva who initially had the brilliant millionaire idea and knew how to perfectly combine a series of fermented ingredients with yeast and juniper berries. From the distillation of all this obtained an alcohol of the most prestigious and renowned of the seventeenth century.
So much furor caused this that was precisely in 1751 when it was necessary to create the Geneva Act as a measure to determine a fair distribution and proper use of the liquor.
Crazy, right? The drunk story that nobody tells you.
When the Tom Collins appears
The recipe as such originally appears from the hand of Mr. Jerry Thomas and his book "The Bartender 'S Guide" published in 1876. His formula was simple but perfect, classical gin, lemon juice and sugar, who also gave him a good final touch of gasified or soda water and served in long drink glasses.
We have to admit that from the beginning this was a drink to serve, share and enjoy with friends.
Tom Collins's great deception
This story is from the year 1874 and arises from a series of games that occurred between the New York bars, where a person approached and played a joke to Bartender telling him that one Tom Collins was spreading lies about him in other bars so that he gets angry and comes out in search of the evil Sr Collins who goes through the city spreading lies.
Thus, the funny name was known as a joke between different people in bars where someone who did not exist was persecuted. Then the bars created the drink as a rematch to the multiple jokes.
How to make homemade syrup
The syrup is a fundamental part of this drink, and making it homemade rises the rod of perfection . It is a mixture of sugar and some liquid (mostly water) that is cooked until it takes a consistency of syrup. Yes or yes, white sugar, lumps or powder are needed.
How is Tom Collins done? Simple:
- Place the sugar in the saucepan and cover with the water. Put to the fire with an average/low temperature, so that it is slowly.
- Once the boiling point reaches, that's it! The temperature that the syrup must reach is 100 ° C. In the case of needing another denser syrup, you have to reach the desired temperature for each one (they are detailed above).
- If you want to taste the syrup, the flavoring must be added at the beginning, next to the cold liquid.
With the homemade homemade syrup and all the doubts solved, we only have to prepare this cocktail of the sky that awaits us.
Tom Collins recipe
Ingredients
- 60 ml of gin.
- 30 ml of lemon juice.
- 30 ml of syrup or syrup.
- Soda or gasified water.
- Orange slices.
How to prepare classic Tom Collins
- Place enough ice to fill a long glass, then at the base add 60 ml of the preference gin.
- At above, add 30 ml of syrup and 30 ml of lemon juice. Mingle.
- Finally complete the glass to the top with soda and decorate with a slice of orange.
