WThis is a home-style take on a beverage from our latest menu. Designed as a large-volume prepared mix that is bursting with the flavours of the festive period, which makes it ideal for your festive gathering. Save the extra syrup to use in breakfast cocktails, sweets, or to make more rounds of bikinis.
Bikini Recipe
Serves 10 people
To make the Clementine Cordial (makes 750ml)
300ml fresh clementine juice
200ml fresh lemon juice
500g caster sugar
Ingredients for the Premix (makes 850ml, enough for 10)
400ml good quality vodka
100ml dry gin
150ml peach liqueur
200ml clementine syrup (from the recipe above)
Whole cranberries, for garnish
Mandarin essential oil, to finish
Directions
Making the Citrus Syrup: Combine every items in a pot, heat until it reaches a light boil, mixing until the sugar dissolves. Next, remove from the heat and leave to cool down completely. Decant into an sterilised bottle, close it keeping it chilled, it will last for up to a month.
To make Cocktail Base: Combine every liquids in a large bottle, let it rest for one hour, then filter it best through a fine cloth, so it's perfectly clear.
When ready to serve: Measure 85ml of your premix to a stirring glass containing ice, and stir gently for a minute to chill. Pour into an chilled martini glass or similar, decorate with the cranberries and finish by giving it a brief mist of mandarin oil above the glass.
