Ingredients: 2 large limes 100g watermelon 2 tbsp gin tonic water Instructions: Cut the limes into 16 pieces. Squeeze 2 pieces of lime into each of the 8 glasses, then drop in the squeezed flesh. Chop the watermelon and divide among the glasses and throw in some ice cubes. Pour gin over each and top up with chilled tonic water. Continue reading Watermelon Gin Spritzer
Ingredients: Honey Cream Blackberries Honey Lemon Juice Scotch Whisky Instructions: Muddle some blackberries, fresh squeezed lemon and honey in the bottom of a shaker tin, and let the honey dissolve a bit in the blackberry and lemon juices. Add a dram of a scotch. Top the drink with a float of hand whipped cream and honey. Continue reading The Black Scot
Ingredients: 1 oz cherry syrup 2 oz, filtered tap water 2 tsp. lime juice 1 1/2 oz of chilled vodka (optional) 3 sprigs of mint 3 pitted cherries Ice Instructions: In a tumbler mix mix all the ingredients and stir. Add ice and then give it another stir. by Humaira Continue reading Afghan Cherry Cocktail
Ingredients: 12 gooseberries 1 tbsp caster sugar juice ½ lemon 3 tbsp elderflower cordial chilled sparkling wine, for topping up (we used Prosecco) Instructions: Tip gooseberries and sugar into a cocktail shaker or large jam jar with a lid. Using the end of a rolling pin, mush the gooseberries and sugar together. Add lemon juice, cordial and 4 ice cubes, pop on the lid … Continue reading Gooseberry & Elderflower Fizz
Ingredients: For the Cucumber Vinegar: 1/2 cup sliced cucumber (peel on) 1 cup unseasoned rice wine vinegar For Each Drink: 2 shiso leaves, plus 1 extra for garnish 8 mint leaves 1/4 ounce simple syrup (see note) 3 ounces fresh Granny Smith apple juice (see note) 1 ounce Cucumber Vinegar 1/4 ounce fresh juice from 1 lime Instructions: For the Cucumber Vinegar: In a small … Continue reading Shiso Fine
Ingredients: English or Scotch or Welsh or Irish whisky Elderflower cordial 2 Strawberries 2 Lime Wedges 1 barspoon Vanilla Sugar Lemonade Method: Muddle limes, strawberries and sugar in a highball glass, add crushed ice, Whisky and elderflower cordial and stir. Top with lemonade and garnish with a strawberry slice. Continue reading The Long Goodbye
Ingredients: 20ml Pineapple Juice 20ml Orange Juice 40ml Rum 10ml Grenadine 50ml Lime 1 dash Angostura Bitter 20ml Spiced Rum Instructions: Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker before pouring into a tall glass full of crushed ice. Grate a little bit of nutmeg over the drink and garnish with fruit slices. Continue reading The Brexit Cocktail
Ingredients: Lime Juice (use half a lime) Dark Rum 50 ML Ginger Beer 75ML Cider 100ML Ice Lime Wedge (to serve) Instructions: Combine the lime juice, ginger beer and the rum on ice. Top with cider. Serve with a wedge of lime. Continue reading Cornish Shipwreck Cocktail
Ingredients Gin 50ml Elderflower liqueur 25ml Apple juice 75ml, not from concentrate Lime juice 10ml Cucumber ribbons to serve Instructions Shake all the ingredients except the cucumber with ice and strain into a tall glass with filled with fresh ice. Decorate with cucumber ribbons to serve. Continue reading English Garden Cocktail
Ingredients: 60ml Tequila 30ml Cointreau 30ml Fresh lime juice Lime wheel for garnish Method: Pour the Tequila, Cointreau and lime juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for 10 to 15 seconds Strain into a cocktail glass with half the rim damped with water, then dipped in salt. Garnish with a lime wheel Continue reading The Original Margarita
Ingredients: 15 ml Lychee liqueur 10 ml Hibiscus liqueur 40 ml Vodka 30 ml Fresh lemon juice 10ml Vanilla sugar syrup Method: Place all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake vigorously then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with edible flower petal or slice of lemon. Continue reading Lotus Flower Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 bottle champagne 1 cup raspberry sorbet raspberries fresh, for garnish Method: Using a cookie scoop, add 1 scoop raspberry sorbet to champagne flute or wine glass. Alternatively, if you do not have a cookie scoop, just measure 1-2 Tbsp raspberry sorbet and place in bottom of champagne glass. Fill with champagne and top with fresh raspberries. Serve immediately. Continue reading Raspberry Sorbet Champagne
Ingredients: 115ml Moscato {or other semi-sweet wine} 1 lemon, juiced 5 fresh raspberries 3 small sprigs of fresh thyme 1 tsp. honey Cranberries and Lemon to garnish, if desired Method: Place lemon juice, raspberries, thyme sprigs, and honey in a cocktail shaker. Use the back of a spoon to muddle the raspberries and other ingredients together, releasing the raspberries’ juice. Add wine to the shaker; … Continue reading Moscato Honey Bee Cocktail
Ingredients: 1/4 oz Raspberry Syrup (or Grenadine), 1½ oz Gin, 3/4 oz Lemon Juice, 1 Egg White Preparation: Dry shake ingredients to emulsify, add ice, shake and served straight up. Served: Straight up; without ice Drinkware: Cocktail glass Continue reading Clover Club
Ingredients: 45ml Vodka 180ml Orange Ginger Beer 30ml Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice 12″ Fresh Slice of Orange Peel Ice Method: Pour vodka over ice with orange peels and orange juice into a cocktail shaker. Then shake a few seconds and pour ingredients into a copper mug. Top with Orange Ginger beer and garnish extra orange peel and enjoy! Continue reading Orange Mule Cocktail
Ingredients: 45ml cognac 15ml cinnamon syrup 1 tbsp apple syrup Method: Place all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously and pour into a coupe glass. Garnish with a slice of apple or cinnamon stick. Continue reading The Harvest
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 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: 50ml Gin 10ml Bottle green elderflower cordial 15ml Martini Rosso Vermouth 75ml Ginger Ale (chilled & freshly opened) 2 lime wedges 1 Fresh thin ginger slice 1 Large mint sprig Instructions: Squeeze two lime wedges into a balloon glass then add the cordial, Gin and Martini Rosso Vermouth, swirl to mix. Fully fill the glass with cubed ice and stir to chill. Top with … Continue reading The Laverstoke Cocktail
Ingredients 25 ml Gordon’s Crisp Cucumber Gin 50 ml Apple Juice 20 ml Lime Juice 20 ml Sugar Syrup 1 leaf mint 1 slice cucumber Instructions Fill a shaker with ice. Add Gordon’s Crisp Cucumber, apple juice, lime juice and sugar syrup to the shaker. Shake until cold. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a slice of cucumber and a mint leaf. Continue reading English Garden Cocktail
