Ramos Gin Fizz
PUBLISHED · 19 Oct 2026
New Orleans’s silkiest fizz: gin, lemon, cream and egg white shaken long and lifted with soda.
New Orleans’s silkiest fizz: gin, lemon, cream and egg white shaken long and lifted with soda.
- Gin60 ml
- Lemon juice15 ml
- Lime juice15 ml
- Simple syrup30 ml
- Heavy cream30 ml
- Egg white1
- Orange flower water3 dashes
- Soda waterto top
Dry-shake everything but the soda, then shake hard with ice for a full minute. Strain into a tall Collins glass, let the foam settle, then trickle soda through the centre so the collar rises above the rim.
- CREATED
- 1888
- CREATOR
- Henry Charles Ramos
- STATE
- United States
- LOCATION
- New Orleans, Louisiana
Henry Charles Ramos created the Ramos Gin Fizz in 1888 at the Imperial Cabinet Saloon on Gravier and Carondelet Streets in New Orleans. Originally called the New Orleans Fizz, it was notoriously laborious: a 12-minute shake, with relays of shaker boys struggling to meet demand. Ramos moved to The Stag in 1907, and the recipe stayed secret until after Prohibition.