Standard Gin Martini Recipes

Steps:

• In mixing glass or cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine gin and vermouth. Stir well, about 30 seconds, then strain into martini glass. Garnish with olive or lemon twist and serve.

Steps:

• Fill a glass martini shaker about 3/4 full of cracked, clean ice. Pour your gin into the shaker and let stand for sixty seconds. Count down from sixty to zero. Approach your shaker with caution, and loving apply the lid. Shake, shake, shake. About fifteen vigorous, diagonal shakes should do the trick. Put that shaker down and get two well chilled martini glasses from the fridge or freezer. Allow the shaker to rest for about another sixty seconds. Into each glass drop two drops of vermouth (the fifth drop is just for good luck). Each glass gets a twist and an olive (the olive is optional--though we love em). Strain your very chilly gin into each glass. Chink and enjoy.

Steps:

• Pour a little bit of dry vermouth in a chilled martini glass and swirl to
• coat the inside of the glass. Dispose of excess vermouth. In a shaker full of ice,
• gently swirl or stir the gin before straining into glass.
• Serving suggestion: Garnish with olives, lemon twist or cocktail onion and add rocks if you like.