Kentucky Maid
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Kentucky Maid

Ingredients

  • 5 leaves
  • 3 slices
  • ¾ ounce
  • 2 ounces
  • 1 ounce fresh juice
  • Garnish: 1 sprig skewered through 1 wheel

Method

Put the mint in a shaker and top with the cucumbers. Add the simple syrup and muddle, making sure to break up the cucumber skins. Add the bourbon and lime juice and shake with ice. Strain into a double Old-Fashioned glass over 1 large ice cube. Garnish with the mint sprig skewered through a cucumber wheel.

History

Created in 2005 by Sam Ross at Milk & Honey in New York — the same bar and era that produced the Penicillin and the Paper Plane — swapping bourbon into his earlier gin-based London Maid.