Ingredients: 50ml Captain Morgan Original Spiced Gold 80ml Apple Cider 2 dashes Angostura Bitters 3 pieces Star Anise 4 buds Clove 2 tbsp Sugar or Maple Syrup Method: Pour Captain Morgan Original Spiced Gold, apple cider, angostura bitters, star anise, cloves and sugar into a saucepan. Heat until warm and the sugar is dissolved. Pour the mixture into a tall glass. #HotMulledCiderDay 30.09.18 Continue reading Spiced Apple Cider
Ingredients: 60ml Bourbon whiskey 30ml freshly squeezed lemon juice 20ml simple syrup 1 egg white from a small to medium egg Ice 1 maraschino cherry Method: Place the bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white in a cocktail shaker. Do not add ice yet. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Add ice and shake for 7 to 10 seconds more to chill. Strain the cocktail … Continue reading Classic Whiskey Sour
Ingredients: For the Cake: 200g softened unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing 175g caster sugar 4 medium eggs 200g self-raising flour ½ tsp baking powder finely grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon 75ml gin For the syrup: 60g caster sugar 60ml tonic water 2 tbsp gin For the icing and decoration: 50g granulated sugar juice of ½ lemon 1 tsp gin 1 lemon, very finely … Continue reading Lemon Gin & Tonic Cake
Ingredients: 1/4 cup fresh raspberries plus more for garnish 115ml Vodka 70ml Fresh lemon juice 60ml lemon lime soda 4 tablespoons sugar Method: Muddle raspberries with sugar. Press through a wire mesh strainer to remove seeds. Press the berries down to release as much juice as possible. Mix raspberry puree, vodka, soda, lemon juice, and ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake to combine. Pour and … Continue reading Raspberry Lemon Drop Martini
Ingredients: 30ml Pomegranate juice Juice of 1 wedge of lime and slice of lime to garnish 60ml Gin Pomegranate arils Tonic water Ice Method: Fill a cocktail shaker with 2/3 ice, squeeze wedge of lime juice, add the gin and a small handful of pomegranate arils (approx. 20) Put the top on the shaker and shake vigorously, so that the ice crushes the arils, releasing … Continue reading Pomegranate Gin Cocktail
Ingredients: 45ml Spiced Rum 15ml Amaretto 120ml Mandarin Juice 15ml Lime Juice Orange Wedge 2 Tsp Raw Cane Sugar Ice Mint Method: Place lime and mint in base of glass and pour over sugar. Muddle. Pour rum and amaretto and add ice. Squeeze lime juice and top with mandarin juice. Garnish with mint leaves and orange wedge. Continue reading Mandarin Mojito
A true taste of summer if you love pears…a crisp, cool, and sweet (but not too sweet) cocktail. Ingredients: 120ml pear vodka 1 pear sliced 30ml lime juice, freshly squeezed 1 tbsp sugar 1 dash angostura bitters Ice 90ml sparkling mineral water Method: Drizzle the lime juice over the pear slices to add flavour and prevent browning. Be sure to get a little on … Continue reading Pear Martini
A quintessentially British Summer cocktail. Think countryside pub, farms and apple orchards. Ingredients: 2 Bramley apples peeled and roughly chopped 3tbsp caster sugar or more depending on the apples 8 good measures of Somerset cider brandy Juice of 2 lemons 1 egg white Ice cubes Method: Place apples into a saucepan with the sugar and a cup of water, bring to the boil and cook … Continue reading Bramley Somerset Temperley Sour
The crispness of the gin is paired perfectly with the floral notes of the lavender and sweetness and tartness of the raspberries. Ingredients: 4 raspberries Pinch of dried lavender buds 50ml gin 2 spoons honey 20ml fresh lemon 20ml fresh orange Dash egg white Dash soda Method: Using a cocktail shaker, start by adding the honey into the bottom. Next, add the gin and … Continue reading Raspberry & Lavender Gin Fizz
The distinct flavour of lychee is accented with the lighter taste of cranberry, an interesting play of flavours that is both intensely sweet and delicately refreshing. Ingredients: 60ml vodka 60ml lychee liqueur 45ml cranberry juice Method: Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled Collins glass filled with ice. Continue reading Red Lotus Cocktail
BY NONI CHRISTOPOULOS (Makes approx. 40) This Greek Meze is great for entertaining and the pastry is so easy to make. Serve as nibbles with drinks at parties, or pack as a snack in a packed lunch or picnic. They freeze well too, just defrost and pop them in a warm oven, and you’ll think they’re freshly baked. Ingredients: Pastry 500g self-raising flour 250g natural … Continue reading Tiropitakia – Rustic Mini Feta Cheese Pies
Ingredients: 35ml Tequila 20ml Cointreau 35ml fresh lime juice handful ice cubes lime to garnish Method: Pour the Tequila, Cointreau and lime juice into a cocktail shaker. Add a handful of ice cubes and shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds. Strain into a Martini glass with half the rim damped with water, then dipped in salt. Garnish with lime. Continue reading Classic Margarita
BY CECILIA NAYLOR A slight twist to a traditional English dessert replacing the strawberries with tropical fruit: Serves 4 Ingredients: 300ml double cream 200ml Greek-style yoghurt 4 shop-bought meringue nests 1 ripe mango, skin and stone removed, flesh cut into 1cm pieces 3 passion fruits halved 4 fresh mint sprigs, to decorate (optional) Method: Gently whip the cream in a large bowl until soft peaks … Continue reading Tropical Eton Mess
Ingredients: Ice cubes 375ml (12fl oz) Pimm’s No.1 100ml (3½fl oz) gin 1l (32fl oz) sparkling lemonade, chilled 200ml (6½fl oz) cranberry juice 1 lemon, sliced, to garnish Mint leaves, to garnish Redcurrents or fresh berries, to garnish Instructions: Fill one quarter of a large jug with ice cubes. Pour in the Pimms, gin, lemonade and cranberry juice, and stir well. Add the lemon, mint … Continue reading Cranberry Pimm’s
Ingredients: 50 ml Vodka 25 ml Blue Curacao 25 ml Grenadine Syrup 25 ml Lemon Juice 150 ml Orange Juice Instructions: Shake the vodka and citrus fruits in a mixer then strain into the cocktail glass. Slide the grenadine syrup down one side of the glass, where it will sink to the bottom. Slide the curacao down the other side, to lie between the vodka … Continue reading The Blue Curacao
BY NONI CHRISTOPOULOS A dear friend who grows his own vegetables gave me a big bundle of rhubarb and tells me that the vegetable which we cook as fruit was at one time worth several times the price of opium. The Chinese used the rhubarb root for medicinal purposes to aid digestion over 2700 years ago. It was introduced to Europeans in the 14th Century … Continue reading Rhubarb, Rhubarb
Ingredients: 50ml good quality vodka, 25ml freshly pressed raspberry juice, 15ml lime juice. Instructions: Mix ingredients Add some soda water to top your glass. Garnish with some mint and one or two raspberries Continue reading Russian Raspberry Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 part Birkir Snaps 1 part Blood Orange Juice 1/2 part Dark Simple Syrup Few Drops Angostura Bitter A Dash of Sparkling Water Instructions: Fill a Cocktail Shaker with Ice Cubes and add Birkir, blood orange juice and syrup. Shake well Strain into a glass, fill up with sparkling water and add few drops of Angostura Bitter Continue reading Birch Cocktail from Iceland
Ingredients: 1 oz (1 part) Gin, 1 oz (1 part) Campari 1 oz (1 part) Sweet red Vermouth Preparation: Stir into glass over ice, garnish and serve. Served: On the rocks Standard garnish: Orange peel Continue reading The Negroni
Ingredients: 3 ounces Prosecco 2 ounces Campari or Aperol 1 ounce club soda 1 slice orange Instructions: Fill a tumbler with ice cubes. Add Prosecco then Campari or Aperol and club soda; stir. Serve garnished with an orange slice. Continue reading Campari Spritz
