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Gin. Tonic.

It's getting to the time of year when I get to resume my Quest For The Perfect Gin And Tonic. After a lot of painstaking, terribly stressful trial and error work last summer I came up with the following recipe which works reliably and creates a drink that doesn't (a) taste only of tonic water, which happens when there's not enough gin, or (b) have too much of a punch, which detracts from the drink as a whole when there's too much gin in there. I hereby share it with the world.

• Take a half-pint pils glass (the type which tapers from top to bottom).
• Drop in three reasonably large ice cubes followed by a slice of lemon or lime.
• Add chilled gin (so the ice doesn't melt too fast) to the level of the top of the ice cubes. I usually use Gordon's but good results have been had with various other brands as well, most notably Plymouth.
• Fill the rest of the glass with tonic. If you've got the proportions exactly right, one of those dinky cans of Schweppes will fill the glass precisely.
• Drink, and mull over what further research may be needed in this field.