Skrapy’s Lemon Drop Martini

This is a favorite and generally the most requested martini type drink at our parties. The only special tools needed are a bartender’s shaker and a twist peeler.

Ingredients:

Your favorite vodka, my wife likes Gray Goose.                   

Lemons

Triple Sec

Sugar, fine sugar is best but any white sugar will do.

Ice

Instructions:

I would like to point out that to speed up the process I suggest chilling your vodka in the freezer for a while and keeping the lemons in the refrigerator. A refrigerated martini glass is also a nice touch.

Use the twist peeler to peel three or four loops from a lemon, try not to break the peel as you do this, once your done set the peel aside for now.

Cut the lemon in half and if you have a lemon squeezer use it to squeeze the entire lemon into the shaker, or it can be done by hand but you lose some of the juice by not using a squeezer.

Pour ¼ inch of sugar into the bottom of a small plate, if you don’t have a glass rimmer. Then take your trusty martini glass and rub the rim of the glass all the way around the top with one of the squeezed lemons. There should be enough residual juice in the lemon you just used to add a nice sheen of juice around the entire top. Turn the glass upside down in the sugar and gently spin it in the sugar to apply a nice even coating of sugar around the entire rim of the glass then set the glass aside.  

Pour 3 oz of vodka into the shaker.

Pour 2 oz of triple sec into the shaker.

Add 8 medium sized ice cubes to the shaker.

Put the lid back on the shaker then while holding the top and bottom of the shaker shake it somewhat briskly up and down for 10 seconds or so. Once your done take the end cap off the shaker, depending on what type of shaker you’re using, and pour the contents into the martini glass. There should be enough to fill the glass to just below the bottom of your sugar mark on the rim. The final touch is to gently add the coil of lemon peel into the glass and serve. -HD