Standard gin martini

Ingredients

• 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.

The mix

• Fill a glass martini shaker about 3/4 full of cracked, clean ice.
• Pour your gin into the shaker and let stand for sixty seconds. Count down from sixty to zero.
• Approach your shaker with caution, and loving apply the lid.
• Shake, shake, shake. About fifteen vigorous, diagonal shakes should do the trick.
• 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.
• Into each glass drop two drops of vermouth (the fifth drop is just for good luck).
• Each glass gets a twist and an olive (the olive is optional--though we love em).
• Strain your very chilly gin into each glass.
• Chink and enjoy.