The Gibson
Tonight’s cocktail of choice is the Gibson — essentially a martini with a cocktail onion. Create your own ratio of gin to vermouth.
- 2 oz Gin
- 3/4 oz dry vermouth
- 1 pickled cocktail onion
With ice in your cocktail shaker add the gin and vermouth and stir until cold. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Add the onion and enjoy.
I decided to try the Gibson after watching the Queen’s Gambit and got a bit hooked.
*cough* It’s good. Is that a martini?
A Gibson. I find the onion slightly more refined than the olive.
The Queen’s Gambit. Season 1. Episode 3.
At first I bought cocktail onions from the grocery store, but found them a bit too sweet. This past summer I decided to try pickling my own and created a hybrid recipe that I really liked.
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 1 cup dry vermouth
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoon coarse salt
- 1 pound peeled pearl onions
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
- 1 tablespoon allspice berries
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
Bring vinegar, vermouth, sugar, and salt to a boil. Pack pearl onions, coriander seeds, allspice berries, and black peppercorns into a glass jar. Pour in liquid; let cool completely. Cover; refrigerate 1 week before using.
To make the onions easier to peel you can blanche them in boiling water for 1 minute after trimming the root ends. Submerge them in an ice water bath and drain. Simply pinch them and the onion pops out of their skin.
Sláinte!
