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14-608: Heering Cherry Liqueur is an ingredient of cocktails including the Singapore Sling and Blood & Sand . Cherry Heering is used in baking; some of the alcohol evaporates as part of the process. Historically produced by the Peter F. Heering company in Denmark, the liqueur brand was acquired by Dutch spirits group DeKuyper for an undisclosed sum in October 2017. This article related to

28-408: A drink company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Singapore Sling The Singapore sling is a gin-based sling cocktail from Singapore . This long drink was reputed to have been developed in 1915 by Ngiam Tong Boon ( traditional Chinese : 嚴崇文 ; simplified Chinese : 严崇文 ; pinyin : Yán Chóngwén ; Wade–Giles : Yen Ch'ung-wen ), a bartender at

42-526: Is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many famous phrases , allusions , and figures, whether historical or mythical . The "New Edition revised, corrected, and enlarged" from 1895 is now in the public domain , and Web-based versions are available online. The most recent version is the 20th edition, published in November 2018 by Chambers Harrap Publishers . Originally published in 1870 by Cassell, Petter & Galpin and written by

56-497: Is based on the structure of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , it contains entries from 1900 onwards and exists alongside its parent volume as a separate work. A variety of spin-off editions have been published in the past, some straying quite far from the theme of 'phrase and fable', such as Brewer's Dictionary of Cinema (1997) and William Donaldson 's A–Z of 'roguish Britons', Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics (2002). Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable

70-541: Is recalled in 1982 in The Sainsbury Book of Cocktails & Party Drinks , where it is also called the Singapore sling and was the classic recipe of the time. A minor difference occurs in that the measures of the spirits were twice the quantity compared with the lemon and soda of the 1930 quotation and garnished with slice of lemon and a glacé cherry. These two very similar forms represent a traditional British version of

84-427: The "original recipe" as a mixture of two measures of gin with one of cherry brandy and one each of orange, pineapple, and lime juice. The hotel's recipe was recreated based on a 1936 note by a visitor. The Long Bar at Raffles Hotel sells 800-1200 Singapore slings every day. 70% of the total revenue of the bar comes from the sling, which earns the bar S$ 15 million in annual sales. By the 1980s, in countries such as

98-524: The Long Bar in Raffles Hotel , Singapore. It was initially called the gin sling . The drink was created sometime between 1899 and 1915 at Raffles Hotel . Simon Diffords wrote that the drink was originally Ngiam's "house" version of the gin sling. It was socially unacceptable for women to drink alcohol in public at that time, so Ngiam made the cocktail look like fruit juice to enable women to drink it. On

112-821: The Reverend E. Cobham Brewer , it was aimed at the growing number of people who wanted to understand the origins of phrases and historical or literary allusions, but did not have a university education. The 'phrase' part of the title refers mainly to the explanation of various idioms and proverbs, while the "fable" part might more accurately be labelled " folklore " and ranges from classical mythology to relatively recent literature. On top of this, Brewer added notes on important historical figures and events, and other things which he thought would be of interest, such as Roman numerals . Brewer's provides information often not included in more traditional dictionaries and encyclopaedias. A "New Edition revised, corrected, and enlarged" of 1440 pages

126-490: The Singapore sling. Also documented in The Sainsbury Book of Cocktails & Party Drinks is the Straits sling (also a Raffles Hotel invention named after the nearby Singapore Strait ), which was even stronger, but also added Bénédictine, Angostura bitters, and orange bitters, but its garnish was both lemon and orange slices and it did not have the glacé cherry. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ( Brewer's ) refers to

140-561: The United States, the Singapore sling was often little more than gin, bottled sour mix , and grenadine , a mixture showing very little relationship to the recipe used elsewhere under the same name. By that time both in the Raffles Hotel and Hong Kong, and generally in the UK, the recipe had remained standardised as gin and cherry brandy (in various ratios between 2:1 and 1:2). By 2000, Bénédictine

154-485: The gin sling as "a drink mainly composed of gin and lemon" and states that it has been attributed to bartender John Collins of London, "but it dates from before his time and was found in the U.S.A. by 1800", which is similar to the John Collins , another cocktail of gin and lemon. Brewer%27s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , sometimes referred to simply as Brewer's ,

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168-580: The other hand, David Wondrich of Esquire claimed that the drink was created in the 1890s and wasn't related to the Raffles until the 1920s. The original recipe of the Singapore sling is debated. This is because the original recipe was lost after the 1930s when the hotel stopped serving the drink. D. A. Embury stated in the Fine Art of Mixing Drinks : "Of all the recipes published for [this drink] I have never seen any two that were alike." The Times described

182-628: Was introduced and pineapple juice used more. In New Orleans, sometimes Hurricane mix was used instead of pineapple. The gin sling , attested from 1790, described a North American drink of gin, which was flavoured, sweetened, and served cold. The "Singapore sling" has been documented as early as 1930 as a recipe in the Savoy Cocktail Book : Ingredients one-quarter lemon juice, one-quarter dry gin, one-half cherry brandy: "Shake well and strain into medium-sized glass, and fill with soda water. Add 1 lump of ice". This recipe persisted for decades and

196-422: Was published by the author in 1895, not long before he died. Since then, it has been continually republished; in revised and updated editions. This retitled and updated version, initially edited by Adrian Room , was first published in 2000 ( ISBN   978-0304350964 ). A second edition ( ISBN   978-0550105646 ), edited by Ian Crofton and John Ayto, was published on 30 November 2010. While this title

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