Old Maid

Credit: c. 2004, Sam Ross @ East Side Co Bar

• 2 oz Hans Reisetbauer Blue Gin
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• .75 oz simple syrup
• 4 mint leaves
• 2 cucumber slices

Combine ingredients in mixing tin; add ice & shake hard to muddle mint and cucumber. Strain over ice into rocks glass and garnish with cucumber & mint.

(sub BOURBON for a KENTUCKY MAID; sub COGNAC for a FRENCH MAID; sub VODKA for a CHELSEA MAID; sub TEQUILA for a MAID IN MEXICO)