"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in -
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> "Aussie" > wrote in message
> 5...
>> http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/a...The%20perfect%
20Gin%
>> 20and%20Tonic/
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>> http://tinyurl.com/24fyeqv
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>> A pint glass, some chunks of ice, a fresh lemon, good Gin, good tonic
>> water.... and most importantly of all, a fluro swizzle stick.
>>
>> I can get through 3 of those in a sitting, and that's it. At least I'm
>> getting 3 pints of fluids in, the miniscule amounts of Quinine per
serve
>> will
>> hopefully build up over time and stop me from getting Malaria.....
again.
>
>
> Lemon? Dear god man what has this world come to? Lime is the only
citrus
> fruit that should ever touch a proper gin and tonic.
>


The last sentence in the exerpt below clarifies *that* particular fact....


http://www.chow.com/recipes/10298-classic-gin-and-tonic


"Gin and the quinine-derived tonic may be at the heart of a Gin and Tonic,
but there is much more in its soul. In his book On Drink, Kingsley Amis
quips, "It would be rather shabby to take money for explaining that, for
instance, a gin and tonic consists of gin and tonic, plus ice and a slice
of lemon." Money matters aside, the lack of preparation details in most
cocktail books takes the Gin and Tonic - or other tonic drinks - for
granted. But who among us has not had an appalling G&T? A good Gin and
Tonic, Gin Tonic, or Gin Tonny must be cold and not overwhelmed by tonic,
as is the case in most printed recipes.

Historically, quinine has been taken as an antidote to fevers for hundreds
of years. In seventeenth-century India, the British mixed it with gin and
lemon juice to reduce the quinine’s bitterness. Schweppes, a company that
perfected carbonated mineral water in the 1780s, introduced their tonic
water in the 1870s. It soon became popular with British troops as a
premixed, curiously refreshing alternative. The fact that Amis and much of
the world prefer lemon to lime is another issue entirely."


--
Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

The act of feeding someone is an act of beauty,
whether it's a full Sunday roast or a jam sandwich,
but only when done with love.