The Gimlet, a Cure for Scurvy | How to Drink

A deep dive into the Gimlet and three recipes you can use to approach this drink, I think you'll like this one!

I was surprised by what I found when I started looking into this drink, but I guess I shouldn't have been, honestly I just didn't know all that much about it. It turns out that the Gimlet is a drink with real deep history. It goes back to the age of sail, and was created mainly out of a need to prevent and cure scurvy, which was a horror for sailor's of the time. Initially the lime juice being administered to sailors had to be preserved in alcohol, but later when Lachlan Rose discovered another means of preservation, well... they put that in alcohol too. And that is the gimlet! There's some debate on where the name originated from, personally I'm not sure Sir. Dr. Thomas Gimlette ever existed, so I hold with the idea that it's named after the tool you open the barrels with.


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