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The Grilled Lemon Bees Knees

The Grilled Lemon Bees Knees

Gin, Honey, and Lemon cocktail from the 1920's

Course Drinks
Cuisine American
Servings 1 cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1 lemon halved
  • light flavored cooking oil, or even olive if you dare for brushing the lemon half
  • 2 oz gin preferably Barr Hill
  • 1/2 oz honey syrup 1/2 honey 1/2 warm water stirred

Instructions

  1. Place a coup or martini glass in the freezer to chill.

  2. To grill the lemon; you need to heat a skillet to medium high heat.

  3. Cut a lemon in half and lightly brush the cut edges with a light cooking oil, Though I’ve used olive oil and it worked great, it added a richness and went will with the honey. 

  4. Place the lemon halves cut side down onto the hot pan and grill for 2-3 minutes until the lemon halves are somewhat blackened. 

  5. Let cool slightly and juice to get ¾ oz of juice strained with a mesh strainer.

  6. Add the ¾ oz lemon juice, the 2 oz gin and the simple honey syrup to a cocktail shaker.

  7. Fill the shaker with ice. Cover the shaker with a lid and shake vigorously for a minute or longer

  8. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass preferably a coup or a martini. Garnish with a lemon twist.