Skip to content
Cocktail Scroll

Built · Nick & Nora

Max Venning

Lemon Cardamom Gimlet cocktail recipe

Pin it

What goes in it

Method · Built

  1. 1Combine the gin and cordial in a bottle and keep it in the freezer.
  2. 2Pour a single serving straight from the freezer into a chilled cocktail glass.
Glass
Nick & Nora
Ice
Up

Prep ahead

House prep

Lemon and Cardamom Cordial (1:1)

Yield
About 1 liter
Keeps
6 weeks
Storage
Refrigerated

Ingredients

  • 10 lemons
  • 5 cardamom pods
  • 2 cupscaster sugar

Method

  1. 1Zest the lemons and crush the cardamom seeds. Muddle zest, cardamom and sugar for several minutes until the sugar turns yellow, then rest an hour. Juice the lemons into the sugar, stir to dissolve and strain through cheesecloth into a sterilized bottle.

About the Lemon Cardamom Gimlet

Lemon Cardamom Gimlet is a cocktail made with gin and lemon and cardamom cordial (1:1), created by Max Venning.

GinBuiltCitrusSpicyRefreshingCardamom

Tried It 0

No ratings yet

Nobody's posted yet. Made this one? Be the first.

Related drinks

Built · Highball

Almazara

Shares gin

  • 2 oz Gin
  • 1 oz Lemon juice
  • 1 oz Four-citrus oleo saccharum
  • 3 dashes Cardamom bitters
  • Olive lemonade, to top

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Tarde.O, Madrid (2023)

Built · Rocks

Countermand

Shares gin

  • 1.25 oz Blanc vermouth
  • 0.25 oz Gin
  • 1 dash Maraschino liqueur
  • 1 dash Absinthe

Christian Gray, Somssi, New York

Built · Highball

Dirty Gin & Tonic

Shares gin

  • 1.5 oz Gin
  • 0.5 oz Fino sherry
  • 0.5 oz Olive brine
  • Top Soda water
  • Top Light tonic water

Laurel Delany, Dean's, New York

Built · Collins

È Tonico

Shares gin

  • 0.75 oz Gin
  • 0.5 oz Navy-strength gin
  • 0.5 oz Dry vermouth
  • 0.25 oz Italian red bitter
  • 1 dash Saline solution
  • Tonic water, to top

Patrick Smith, Maialino, New York (2023)

One new cocktail a week. Free.