{"id":307,"date":"2009-09-27T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/martinez-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:55:37","slug":"martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/2009\/09\/martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.axelakesson.com\/2009\/09\/martinez-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-807 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/media.axelakesson.com\/2009\/09\/martinez-1.jpg\" alt=\"martinez\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/media.axelakesson.com\/2009\/09\/martinez-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/media.axelakesson.com\/2009\/09\/martinez-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/media.axelakesson.com\/2009\/09\/martinez-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>My cocktail adventures continues with the Martinez. It was probably invented in the 1880s and the recipe I used was adapted from Jerry Thomas&#8217;s 1887 book The Bar-Tender&#8217;s Guide.<br \/>\nThe drink came after the Manhattan (basically change the whiskey to gin) and is the father or so to the Dry Gin Martini.<\/p>\n<p>So what about the taste? Wow&#8230; quite powerful!<br \/>\nHaving this drink on a balmy early autumn night in London was not quite right. This cocktail reminds me of the cold of winter and more especially Christmas. Quite smooth at first but then something of a spice explosion from the gin, vermouth and bitter with the Luxardo rounding of the flavors somewhat.<br \/>\nThink orange, molasses, Christmas cake&#8230;<br \/>\nHowever, at the right time (coming in after a long winter walk and sitting in front of the fire) I suspect this would be a very nice cocktail indeed. I will have to wait until Christmas to try it again and see if I am right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients for two Martini glasses:<\/strong><br \/>\n60 ml Gin (I used Plymouth)<br \/>\n30 ml Martini Rosso<br \/>\n8 (or so) ml Luxardo Maraschino liqueur<br \/>\nDashes of Angostura bitter to taste<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to make it:<\/strong><br \/>\nFill your Martini glasses with ice. Fill a large glass (or your shaker) with ice and add all the spirits to this glass. Stir slowly (stirring fast will &#8220;bruise&#8221; the spirits and make your cocktail cloudy) with a bar spoon for around 20 seconds. Discard the ice from the Martini glass, rub the edge of the glass with the cut end of an lemon peel then strain your Martinez into the glass.<br \/>\nGarnish the edge of the glass with a twisted lemon peel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cocktail adventures continues with the Martinez. It was probably invented in the 1880s and the recipe I used was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[177,204,207,211],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-cocktails","tag-drink","tag-gin","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/axelakesson.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}