The Bees Knee’s

The Bees Knee’s

Posted on December 4, 2012

How To Make The Bee’s Knees

The Bee’s Knees is a prohibition-era cocktail. Like lots of drinks from the 19-teens and 20s, the recipe is simple. The early cocktail craze considered cocktail execution to be just as critical as composition. Aromatic cocktails were carefully stirred to the perfect amount of dilution and coldness. Sour cocktails, like The Bee’s Knees, were shaken hard for aeration, creating a lighter texture. Like most of the cocktails recipes we post, this one uses honey syrup (water and honey), and one of the benefits of using honey in shaken sour cocktails is its natural textural ebullience when combined with other liquids.
We recommend using Plymouth Gin for this recipe because its higher-than-usual proportion of root vegetables results in a mellower and slightly less dry spirit. To dress up The Bee’s Knees, garnish with a honey-candied lemon peel. And for a sweeter cocktail, use meyer lemons.

Ingredients:

– 2 oz. Plymouth Gin
– 3/4 oz. Massy Honey syrup (see recipe here)
– 1 oz. fresh-squeezed lemon juice
– lemon peel

 

Recipe:

Simple as ever. Combine first three ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice (lots of ice). Shake hard for about eight seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or champagne coupe. Squeeze the lemon peel to extract its natural oils, rub around the rim of the glass, and drop it in for garnish. Enjoy.

Cheers!

-MHC


 

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