5 glorious gin recipes for Mother's Day
4th March 2016
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It’s Mother’s Day this weekend, and if your mother is anything like ours she enjoys a cocktail (or three.)
So. You know what to do.
Gin Mimosa
(Perfect for pairing with homemade breakfast or brunch…)
The Ginstitute’s Jake Burger recommends pre-preparing the juice and sugar syrup the night before and says “This is a modern take on the classic Buck’s Fizz that takes no time at all to prepare.”
We hear you, Jake.
Ingredients (Serves 1)
10mls Portobello Road Gin
5mls Sugar Syrup
Orange or clementine segments
Top with a sparkling wine like Cava or Prosecco
Method
Run a good few clementines through a juicer and strain out the bits. If you haven’t got an electric juicer squeeze by hand.
Make a speedy sugar syrup by dissolving two parts sugar into one part boiling water
Pour the gin into a Champagne flute
Then fill the glass two parts chilled sparkling wine to one part chilled and strained clementine juice
Stir gently immediately before serving
Amaretti and Pecan Shake
Ingredients
37.5mls Portobello Road Gin
18.75mls Amaretto
3 Amaretti Biscuits
8 Pecan Nuts
2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream
Small scoop crushed ice
Aerosol cream (if you have it)
Cherry for garnish (if you have it)
Method
Combine all of the ingredients and blend up in a drinks/food blender (finally making use of that well-intentioned blender you got for Christmas)
Serve it in a milkshake glass
Garnish witha squirt of aerosol cream, an amaretti biscuit and a cherry
Portobello Road Copa
Ingredients
50ml Portobello Road Gin
Ingredients
50ml Portobello Road Gin
5 sugar snap peas
1 celery stick
5 mint leaves
12.5ml elderflower liqueur
12.5ml egg white
Method
Juice the peas, mint and celery together so that the flavours are combined
Place all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake well
Add ice and give the cocktail another good shake
Strain the liquid into a cocktail glass and garnish with a sprig of mint.
Portobello Road Gin’s Jake Burger’s Clover Club
Ingredients
50mls Portobello Road Gin
25mls Lemon Juice
12.5mls Raspberry Syrup
2.5mls Dry Vermouth
20mls egg white
Method
Combine ingredients and give them a long hard shake
Double strain into chilled martini glass
Garnish with a raspberry
Tickets for The Ginstitute’s ‘A Bon Vivant’s Guide to Classic Gin Cocktails’ are priced at £60 for a 90-minute session and are available to purchase via the Ginstitute website.
(Perfect for pairing with homemade breakfast or brunch…)
The Ginstitute’s Jake Burger recommends pre-preparing the juice and sugar syrup the night before and says “This is a modern take on the classic Buck’s Fizz that takes no time at all to prepare.”
We hear you, Jake.
Ingredients (Serves 1)
10mls Portobello Road Gin
5mls Sugar Syrup
Orange or clementine segments
Top with a sparkling wine like Cava or Prosecco
Method
Run a good few clementines through a juicer and strain out the bits. If you haven’t got an electric juicer squeeze by hand.
Make a speedy sugar syrup by dissolving two parts sugar into one part boiling water
Pour the gin into a Champagne flute
Then fill the glass two parts chilled sparkling wine to one part chilled and strained clementine juice
Stir gently immediately before serving
Amaretti and Pecan Shake
Ingredients
37.5mls Portobello Road Gin
18.75mls Amaretto
3 Amaretti Biscuits
8 Pecan Nuts
2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream
Small scoop crushed ice
Aerosol cream (if you have it)
Cherry for garnish (if you have it)
Method
Combine all of the ingredients and blend up in a drinks/food blender (finally making use of that well-intentioned blender you got for Christmas)
Serve it in a milkshake glass
Garnish witha squirt of aerosol cream, an amaretti biscuit and a cherry
Portobello Road Copa
Ingredients
50ml Portobello Road Gin
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Ingredients
50ml Portobello Road Gin
5 sugar snap peas
1 celery stick
5 mint leaves
12.5ml elderflower liqueur
12.5ml egg white
Method
Juice the peas, mint and celery together so that the flavours are combined
Place all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake well
Add ice and give the cocktail another good shake
Strain the liquid into a cocktail glass and garnish with a sprig of mint.
Portobello Road Gin’s Jake Burger’s Clover Club
Ingredients
50mls Portobello Road Gin
25mls Lemon Juice
12.5mls Raspberry Syrup
2.5mls Dry Vermouth
20mls egg white
Method
Combine ingredients and give them a long hard shake
Double strain into chilled martini glass
Garnish with a raspberry
Tickets for The Ginstitute’s ‘A Bon Vivant’s Guide to Classic Gin Cocktails’ are priced at £60 for a 90-minute session and are available to purchase via the Ginstitute website.
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