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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow To Make Gin And Dubonnet, Queen Elizabeth IIs Morning Cocktail Of Choice
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gin-and-dubonnet-recipe-queen-elizabeth_us_5981d739e4b09d24e994482fts hot. Its humid. And its just before lunch time. What is one to do? If youre Queen Elizabeth II, you have a cocktail, of course.
Business Insider released an exhaustive list of all the queens 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 thats 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 majestys recipe calls for two parts Dubonnet Rouge and one part Gordons gin, stirred and strained into a glass, followed by a slice of lemon and exactly two cubes of ice.
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How To Make Gin And Dubonnet, Queen Elizabeth IIs Morning Cocktail Of Choice (Original Post)
jpak
Aug 2017
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Drank them I think...or maybe it was plain Gin on ice...
Warpy
(111,406 posts)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
(47,581 posts)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
(111,406 posts)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
(47,581 posts)3. QE II gets day-drunk?
I like it!
MANative
(4,113 posts)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
(40,416 posts)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
(41,760 posts)8. I just bought some Gordon's and Dubonnet
ask me after they chill