A few simple steps turn a gin cocktail into a lively summer granita.

Gin cocktails and tea sandwiches will be served.

Vodka generally makes a poor substitute for gin in a martini or any other gin cocktail.

The Fallen Angel is a gin cocktail.

A well known gin cocktail is the martini, traditionally made with gin and dry vermouth.

An Old Etonian is a gin cocktail which enjoyed great popularity in London, circa 1925.

Many gin cocktails owe their existence to bathtub gin, as they were also created in order to mask the awful taste.

Meanwhile, Natalia, a bond trader by day, circulates with instructions and reassurances and cold gin cocktails.

And it is further reported that the old soakers haven't any teeth--wore them out eating gin cocktails and brandy punches.

Bartenders Choice No. 1 was a gin cocktail, with Grand Marnier, orange blossom water, club soda and mint.

In the land of sun and flowers, His head lies pillowed low, No more he'll drink the gin cocktail, At Benjamin Haven's, Oh!

The Alexander is a gin cocktail consisting of gin, Chocolate Liqueur (Crème de cacao), and Cream.

Each evening at 5.30pm, guests are treated to a taster gin cocktail of the day served with a paired canapé to honour the Great British tradition of 'Gin Hour.'

British foreign officers and their wives, assigned to equatorial Africa, preserved the social rituals of home in their hilltop bungalows, sipping gin cocktails in their yellowing dinner jackets and beaded sheaths.

The changes are meant to modernize the hotel, whose regular guests included writers like Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad during its prime in the early 1900's, when a gin cocktail called the Singapore Sling was first mixed in its Long Bar.

Although there are various creation myths, the Jamisons put their money on Francisco (Pancho) Morales, who, while tending bar on July 4, 1942, devised a tequila drink for a woman when he didn't know how to prepare the gin cocktail she'd actually requested.

Here's Mr. Wondrich's recommendation: "I can't think of anything more toothsome and appropriate than the so-called 'improved' version of the Holland gin cocktail, which was sucked down in vast numbers by the dudes, swells and sports of the city from around 1800 to the late 1880's."

For a fleeting moment, you are Julian English and the road is yours, roaring in a sleek Caddie through scenic highways of fact and fiction, past coal-patch taverns and slatty wood houses, gin cocktail parties and country clubs vibrating to the tunes of Tommy Lake's Royal Collegians.