Syrup
Rose's Style Lime
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Rose's-style lime is the historic sweetened preserved lime: cooked, stable, a little musty-candy, the gimlet that Winston-Churchill-adjacent lore argues about. It is not fresh lime juice. Use it when a recipe means the bottled cordial, not a fresh smash. Fresh lime cordial is the other leaf.
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BottledClassic Gimlet
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Brownish GreenChurchill FightHistoric GimletMusty CandyNot FreshPreserved Cooked LimeStable
History
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Lauchlan Rose patented preserved lime juice; the sweetened cordial defined a bar style.
Rose's lime cordial was the gimlet mixer of mid-century bars.
Craft gimlets split between Rose's-style and fresh lime cordial camps.