Cablegram

Name: Cablegram
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Bourbon Whiskey; 20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice; 10 ml Simple Syrup; 90 ml Ginger Ale; Lemon Wedge

A pre-Prohibition American highball named for the transatlantic telegram.

Ingredients

Bourbon Whiskey60 ml

Fresh Lemon Juice20 ml

Simple Syrup10 ml

Ginger Ale90 ml

Lemon Wedge

Glassware

Highball glass

Chilled.

Method

1
Combine the bourbon, lemon juice and simple syrup in a shaker.
2
Add ice and shake for 8 seconds — just enough to chill and combine.
3
Strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice.
4
Top with cold ginger ale and stir once.
5
Garnish with a lemon wedge.

From the Bartender

A pre-Prohibition American highball named for the transatlantic telegram. It is the missing link between the Whiskey Sour and the modern whiskey-ginger, and the short shake before the ginger goes in is what makes it taste like neither.

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