Standard Gin Martini

• 6 ounces of freezing Bombay Sapphire or Mercury gin.
• 5 drops of Noilly Pratt dry vermouth.
• 2 small twists of lemon rind.
• 2 Picholine olives.

1. Fill a glass martini shaker about 3/4 full of cracked, clean ice.
2. Pour your gin into the shaker and let stand for sixty seconds. Count down from sixty to zero.
3. Approach your shaker with caution, and loving apply the lid.
4. Shake, shake, shake. About fifteen vigorous, diagonal shakes should do the trick.
5. Put that shaker down and get two well chilled martini glasses from the fridge or freezer. Allow the shaker to rest for about another sixty seconds.
6. Into each glass drop two drops of vermouth (the fifth drop is just for good luck).
7. Each glass gets a twist and an olive (the olive is optional--though we love em).
8. Strain your very chilly gin into each glass.
9. Chink and enjoy.

mercury, lemon rind, picholine

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/standard-gin-martini-1212095 (may not work)