Clover Club | Tipsy Tuesday

Back from vacation and it’s back to cocktails every Tuesday!  I know it’s a hard job, but someone has to do it!.  We continue to work away through our various cocktail books.  One of our favorites, is a 200 Cocktails: Hamlyn All Colorby Hamlyn.  It’s a nice, small, but fairly thick book with a photo of every cocktail recipe. I really like it when books give a photo, even though ours doesn’t necessarily look like them, it gives us something to shoot for!

There are two versions of this cocktail – The Pink Clover Club and The Clover Club.  The Clover Club omits grenadine and adds a splash of simple syrup.  We got around to reading the back of the grenadine bottle and were not at all thrilled with the ingredients – basically high fructose corn syrup and red dye!  We will be trying to make our own, so stay tuned for that!

This was a simple cocktail, letting some good gin really shine.

Clover Club

• ice cubes
• juice of 2 limes
• splash of sugar syrup
• 2 egg whites
• 6 measures gin 
• strawberry slices for garnish (we didn’t have any) 

Put 8-10 ice cubes in a cocktail shaker and add the lime juice, sugar syrup, egg whites and gin.  Shake until a frost forms on the outside of the shaker.  Strain into two martini glasses and garnish with strawberry slices. 

Makes 2