Buzz Button - White Lady Recipe

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Buzz Button - White Lady Ingredients

2 oz. / 60 ml buzz button infused gin (I used beefeater gin)

.5 oz / 15 ml orange liqueur (I used cointreau)

.5 oz / 15 ml lemon juice, freshly squeezed

1 egg white

How to make a Buzz Button - White Lady

Dry shake all ingredients for a good 15-20 seconds. Add a large block of ice and shake again. Double strain into a coupe and garnish with a buzz button

The White Lady doesn't have one settled origin story. Harry MacElhone claimed he created it in 1919 at Ciro's Club in London (though his original version used crème de menthe, not gin), while London's Savoy Hotel credits its own bartender, Harry Craddock. Either way, the modern gin-Cointreau-lemon version came together in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, and egg white wasn't part of the original recipe at all.

This version leans into that history by doing something neither Harry did: infusing the gin itself with buzz buttons before it ever reaches the shaker. Instead of a tingling garnish on top, the sensation runs through the whole drink, a different approach than muddling the flower in directly or using it purely as a garnish.