The recipe for a gimlet cocktail involves only three ingredients, but you do need to be very picky about them, experts say
Cocktails offer a wide array of flavours. Everyone has their favourite, and their choices are often predicated by the season.
In cooler months, people prefer drinks crafted with spirits like bourbon or scotch, while in summer we crave bright and refreshing drinks. Citrus-based cocktails are often favourites.
Enter the gimlet, a sweet and tart mix of gin, lime juice and simple syrup that is believed by some to have started out as a medicine.
To prevent scurvy on British warships in the 1800s, sailors drank a daily ration of citrus juice. But the fruit often went bad during long voyages, so Royal Navy surgeon Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Gimlette suggested adding gin, or so the story goes.
