In honor of the Sunday mini martini, here's a mystical concoction:

• 4 oz. Hendrick's Gin; waft of Noilly Prat dry vermouth, two lemon slices, two chilled mini martini glasses -- about 3 oz. each (mine are 1950s etched glasses from my Mother-in-law.  Back then, it was less volume, more repetition.) 
• Flay the flesh of lemon from the rind, and twist the rind (much as Cort Riebling is flayed by Borzal in Chapter 21 of A Genie in the House of Saud).
• Slide the pulpy lemony pieces around the insides of the glasses. Drop the curled rind in each.
• Mix the gin and vermouth over ice and shake.
• Pour into the chilled glasses.

It's called the Zubis because the vapor of it is enough to kill you.....

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