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anyway, modern recipes call for rose's lime juice in the gimlet, but i think that shit's foul chemical sludge.

much better to use fresh lime juice and bar sugar-- or no sugar!

listen:

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It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.


“Will you have lime juice or lemon squash?” Macomber asked.


“I’ll have a gimlet,” Robert Wilson told him.


“I’ll have a gimlet too. I need something,” Macomber’s wife said.


“I suppose it’s the thing to do,” Macomber agreed. “Tell him to make three gimlets.”


The mess boy had started them already, lifting the bottles out of the canvas cooling bags that sweated wet in the wind that blew through the trees that shaded the tents.

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