Recipe

• 8 parts lemon vodka

• 4 parts triple sec

• 2 parts lemon juice

• 1 part sugar syrup

Cut halfway through a lemon, and run it around the rim of a cocktail glass.  Then run the rim through some sugar, and leave it to dry (possibly by a short stay in an oven at 50°C).  Chill the glass.  Shake the four ingredients together in a cocktail shaker and strain into the glass, then add a thin lemon slice.

Disappointing.  I followed the 8:4:2:1 recipe of the margarita and the embassy of previous posts, but what resulted was pretty bland and uninteresting.  I think it may be due to the heavy focus on lemon vodka, which is superb in a cosmopolitan, but doesn't do much on its own.

It looks pretty snazzy, though.