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Columbia Skin

Recipe information

  • Yield

    <p>Serves 4.</p>

Ingredients

1 lemon
9 ounces Scotch whisky
2 cups boiling water

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Remove the peel from the lemon, slicing it as thinly as possible so that practically none of the white is included. Slice the lemon thinly. Put the Scotch in a warmed pitcher, add the lemon peel and boiling water. Stir gently.

    Step 2

    Serve in Old-fashioned glasses garnished with a slice of lemon.

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