A confusing history follows the Gibson. The standard story is that sometime in the 30's magazine illustrator Charles Dana Gibson asked Charlie Conolly at the New York's Players Club to make something different. However, the real story has once again come out thanks to Charles Gibson whose father's great uncle was the one that actually created this variation of the Martini in the late 1800's.
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 oz gin
- 1/2 oz dry vermouth
- 1 or 3 cocktail onions for garnish
Preparation:
- Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes.
- Stir well.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Garnish with the cocktail onion.
The onion garnish also marries well with vodka when it replaces the gin for a Vodka Martini.
