Gin · Stir · Coupe · 4 min
Gibson
A Dry Martini with a cocktail onion in place of the olive or twist. It dates from around 1900, with San Francisco and New York both claiming it.
What's in it
- 60ml (2 oz) Gin
- 10ml (⅓ oz) Dry vermouth
- 1 Cocktail onion optional
How to make it
- Chill a coupe.
- Fill a mixing glass with ice and add the gin and dry vermouth.
- Stir for twenty to thirty seconds, until the mixing glass frosts.
- Strain into the chilled coupe and garnish with a cocktail onion.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
The drink is said to have been created at San Francisco's Bohemian Club in the 1890s, either by the businessman Walter D. K. Gibson or the illustrator Charles Dana Gibson; historians tend to credit Walter. Its first mention in print came in February 1898, from Edward Townsend, a former vice-president of the club. What set it apart was the absence of the orange bitters then usual in a Martini. The onion came later; one New York story credits the Players Club bartender Charley Connolly, and the first known recipe with an onion is Boothby's of 1908.
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