How To Make Gin And Dubonnet, Queen Elizabeth IIs Morning Cocktail Of Choice

[jpak]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gin-and-dubonnet-recipe-queen-elizabeth_us_5981d739e4b09d24e994482f

t’s hot. It’s humid. And it’s just before lunch time. What is one to do? If you’re Queen Elizabeth II, you have a cocktail, of course.

Business Insider released an exhaustive list of all the queen’s favorite food and drinks in March, including gin and Dubonnet, her supposed pre-lunch cocktail of choice.

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Dubonnet (about $12 for 750 ml) is an aperitif that’s a combination of fortified wine, a proprietary blend of peels, spices and herbs, and a bit of the medicine quinine. It was created in the 1840s to make quinine more palatable for French Foreign Legion Troops, who needed to drink it to combat malaria, according to Drink of the Week.

ABC reports that her majesty’s recipe calls for two parts Dubonnet Rouge and one part Gordon’s gin, stirred and strained into a glass, followed by a slice of lemon and exactly two cubes of ice.

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[MFM008]

1. Her mum

Drank them I think...or maybe it was plain Gin on ice...

[Warpy]

2. If I can ever drink again, I'll stick to gin and tonic

Mixing the grain and the grape always led to a skull cracking hangover.

[Iggo]

4. Clean and sober twenty years, and I get nostalgic for it every now and then...

...until I remember the hangovers.

No. No. No. No. No.

[Warpy]

5. Alcohol just gives me instant migraines

No party, just pain. Considering the spectacular drunks on both sides of my family, I guess I'm lucky.

[Iggo]

3. QE II gets day-drunk?

I like it!

[MANative]

6. Dubonnet Rouge is my mom's favorite drink...

Over crushed ice with a peel of lemon. She's over 80, so I conclude that Dubonnet is clearly a life-prolonging beverage. I'll have to starting drinking, apparently! 😆

[longship]

7. I'll have to try that. I like Gordon's Gin. (plus some funny quips!)

I make martinis with Gordon's. With Stock vermouth (Italian) and a dash of bitters. It's nice.

I'm going to pick up some Dubonnet and try the Queen's recommended morning cocktail some day. It sounds yummy.

Now, some tippling quips:

WC Fields: I don't drink any more, but I don't drink any less.

WC Fields: I'll stop drinking when I can figure out a better way to get the stuff down.

Lady Astor: Winston, if I were Clementine, I would put poison in your brandy.
Winston Churchill: If you were Clementine, I would drink it

Lady Astor: Sir Winston! You are very drunk.
Winston Churchill: Madame. You are ugly and I will be sober in the morning.

Enjoy, my DU friends!
Skäl!

[jpak]

8. I just bought some Gordon's and Dubonnet

ask me after they chill