Cocktail · United States
Ramos Gin Fizz
Make the New Orleans Ramos Gin Fizz with gin, cream, citrus, egg white and orange-flower water, including exact oz and ml measurements.
- Yield
- 1 cocktail
- Prep time
- 8 minutes
- Glassware
- Highball glass
- Base
- Gin
Ingredients
- 2 oz (60 ml) gin
- 0.75 oz (22 ml) fresh lemon juice
- 0.75 oz (22 ml) fresh lime juice
- 1 oz (30 ml) heavy cream
- 1 oz (30 ml) simple syrup
- 1 egg white
- 3 drops orange-flower water
- 2 oz (60 ml) soda water
Garnish
No garnish
How to make it
- 1Chill a highball glass and measure each ingredient.
- 2Add gin, lemon juice, lime juice, heavy cream, simple syrup, egg white, drops orange-flower water and soda water to a shaker and shake without ice for 15 seconds to aerate the egg white.
- 3Add ice and shake hard for another 12 seconds.
- 4Fine-strain into the highball glass.
- 5Serve immediately without a garnish.
The story behind Ramos Gin Fizz
Henry C. Ramos created this famously labor-intensive fizz in New Orleans in 1888. Cream, citrus, egg white and orange-flower water give it the cloudlike texture that made it a local institution.