Ingredients: Ice 6 tablespoons cranberry juice 3 tablespoons Vanilla Vodka 3 tablespoons ginger ale Candied ginger Instructions: Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. In the cocktail shaker combine cranberry juice and Vanilla Vodka (see below for recipe). Cover and shake about 10 seconds or until cold. Fill a chilled tall glass with ice; strain vodka mixture into glass. Slowly pour in ginger ale; stir gently … Continue reading Winter Cranberry Cocktail
Ingredients 1-1/2 oz. Vodka 1 oz. St Germain chilled champagne edible flower to garnish Directions Pre-chill a champagne glass by placing it into the freezer for 5 minutes. Place all of the ingredients, except for the champagne and garnish, into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Vigorously shake the mixture for 35 seconds and then strain into the chilled cocktail glass. Top the drink … Continue reading The Epiphany
Ingredients per cocktail: 1 tablespoon rhubarb jam 50ml Tarquin’s Cornish Pastis 25ml grenadine Optional lemon juice Ice to serve Method: Combine the jam, gin and grenadine in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously, then strain and pour over ice. If you’ve used a very sweet jam, add a squeeze of lemon to taste. Garnish with mint and serve. Continue reading Cornish Louche
Ingredients: 350ml Martini Rosso 150ml Gin 4 tsp icing sugar 24 frozen raspberries 2 bottles chilled Prosecco Instructions: Mix the Martini and gin together and chill or store in a bottle if making ahead. If you have room in your fridge or freezer, chill your Champagne glasses, too. When your guests are due to arrive, spoon ½ tsp icing sugar into 8 Champagne glasses. … Continue reading Raspberry Martini Christmas Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 oz dry sherry 1 oz rosso vermouth 1 dash orange bitters 1 twist orange peel Instructions: Stir well over ice cubes in a mixing glass. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass, add a twist of orange peel, and serve. Continue reading Duke of Marlborough Cocktail
Ingredients: Scotch whisky 50ml Angostura bitters 1ml Orange 40g Lemon 40g Cane sugar cubes 5g Red maraschino cherry 5g Crushed ice 150g Instructions: Place 1 cane sugar cube into a rocks glass, a chopped orange wedge and lemon wedge Add 1 dash of angostura bitters, a red maraschino cherry and muddle Fill the rocks glass to the top with crushed ice Pour in 50 … Continue reading Scottish Old-Fashioned
Ingredients: 2 oz blended scotch. 1 oz ginger honey syrup 1 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice. 1/4 oz Laphroaig Instructions: To make the ginger honey syrup, combine 1/2 oz water and 1/2 oz honey in a short, heavy-bottomed glass and stir until dissolved. Peel about a thumb-sized portion of ginger root and cut up into 5 or 6 chunks and add to the glass. … Continue reading The Penicillin Cocktail
Ingredients: 2.5 fl. oz. of White Rum 0.5 fl. oz. of Vanilla Liqueur 0.5 fl. oz. of Vanilla Sugar Syrup 1.0 fl. oz. of Lime Juice Ice Suggested Garnish: A Wedge of Lime Instructions: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with the ice, shake, strain into a martini glass, then garnish. Continue reading Madagascar Sour
Ingredients: 35 ml Plymouth Gin 15 ml Plymouth Sloe Gin 15ml Antica formula 10ml fresh lemon juice 10ml fresh orange juice 5ml sugar syrup 75ml soda water Sprig of mint Wedge of lemon Orange twist for the garnish Instructions: Mix all the liquid ingredients together. Pour into a copper tankard over chipped ice and stir. Garnish with a sprig of mint, a thin wedge … Continue reading The Pennant Gin Cocktail
BY CECILIA NAYLOR John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich was a notorious gambler who in a twenty-four-hour gambling streak ordered his cook to prepare food in such a way that it would not interfere with his game. The cook returned with sliced beef in between two slices of bread which enabled the Earl to continue his game with one hand and not get his … Continue reading Sandwich Day
Ingredients Serves: 12 2 oranges 2 bottles red wine 1 bottle white wine 1 (6cm) piece of fresh root ginger, thinly sliced 3 cinnamon sticks 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 5 tablespoons demerara sugar, or to taste 4 tablespoons brandy (optional) Instructions Prep: 10 mins Cook: 1 hr 15 mins Ready in: 1 hr 25 mins. Use a sharp knife or a vegetable peeler to … Continue reading Bonfire Night Mulled Wine
Ingredients One 20-ounce can lychees in heavy syrup 1/4 cup thinly sliced peeled fresh ginger 16 brandied cherries 1/4 cup superfine sugar 1/2 cup fresh lime juice 12 ounces dark rum Three 12-ounce bottles ginger beer Ice cubes Instructions In a small saucepan, bring the lychee syrup and ginger to a boil. Remove from the heat, cover and let steep for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, … Continue reading Halloween Cocktail
Ingredients 1-ounce gin 1/2-ounce sweet vermouth 1/2-ounce dry vermouth 1/2-ounce strawberry liqueur Fresh strawberry to garnish Instructions Place all of the ingredients, except for the garnish, into a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with ice and then shake the mixture vigorously for 30 seconds to chill. Strain the mixture into a cocktail glass, garnish with the cherry fresh strawberry, and then serve immediately. Continue reading The Bloodhound
Automobile Cocktail Ingredients: 1 oz Scotch Whisky 1 oz Dry Gin 1 oz Sweet Vermouth 1 dash Orange Bitters Automobile Cocktail Instructions: Stir well with ice and strain into cocktail stem or rocks glass. Continue reading The Automobile
Ingredients 2 ounces honey flavoured whiskey, such as Yukon Jack 1/2 ounce Lime Juice Instructions Add both ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake for approximately 10 seconds, until well mixed. Strain the drink into a shot glass. Continue reading The Snakebite Shot
Ingredients: 1 tin coconut milk 1 tin chickpeas 1 sweet potato, diced 1 bell pepper, diced 1 onion, diced 2 tomatoes, diced 2 tsp garam masala 1/2 tsp cumin 1/2 tsp coriander 1/2 tsp turmeric Fresh coriander Instructions: Lightly brown onions over high heat, then add peppers and sweet potatoes and spices, stir well for a minute before pouring in the coconut milk. Cover … Continue reading Veggie Curry Recipe
Ingredients: 2 oz vodka or gin 4 oz grapefruit juice Kosher salt Instructions: Moisten the rim of a highball or rocks glass and press onto a plate of coarse salt. Add ice, vodka, grapefruit juice and stir. Continue reading Salty Dog Cocktail
Ingredients: 1/3 Lemon Juice 2/3 Dry Gin 2 dashes of Maraschino Instructions: Shake well in a mixing glass with cracked ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry or a lemon twist. Continue reading The Aviation Cocktail
Ingredients For the sponge: 225g/8oz unsalted butter 225g/8oz golden caster sugar 4 free-range eggs 200g/7oz self-raising flour splash full-fat milk 1 tsp stem ginger (from a jar) 250g/9oz cooking apples, peeled, cores removed, chopped 2 tbsp sugar For the sauce: 150g/5½oz butter 150g/5½oz soft dark brown sugar 150ml/5½fl oz double cream 100ml/3½fl oz condensed milk 50ml/2fl oz calvados (optional) ready-made custard, to serve Method: … Continue reading Toffee Apple Sponge
Ingredients for Sidecar Cocktail: 1 1/2 oz cognac 3/4 oz Cointreau 3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice Instructions: Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Wet rim with lemon and press into sugar. Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Continue reading Sidecar Cocktail
