WThis is a home-style version of a drink from a new drinks list. It's a large-volume pre-mixed which is loaded with the tastes associated with Christmas time, making it ideal for a celebration. Reserve the remaining cordial for breakfast cocktails, sweets, or to make more rounds of bikinis.
The Bikini Cocktail
Serves 10 people
To make the Clementine Syrup (yields 750ml)
300ml recently pressed clementine juice
200ml newly squeezed lemon juice
500g fine sugar
For the Premix (makes 850ml, enough for 10)
400ml decent vodka
100ml London dry gin
150ml peach liqueur
200ml clementine syrup (as made above)
A few cranberries, to garnish
Mandarin essential oil, for finishing
Directions
To prepare the Cordial: Place every ingredients in a pan, heat until it reaches a gentle boil, agitating so the sugar melts. After that, take off the stove and leave to cool down fully. Decant into an sterilised bottle, seal keeping it chilled, it will last for around one month.
For the Premix: Mix all the spirits and syrup into one sizeable container, allow it to infuse for an hour, then strain , ideally through a fine cloth, making it fully clarified.
To serve: Measure 85ml from the premix into your mixing glass filled with ice, and agitate gently for one minute to chill. Filter into an cold coupe glass or a similar vessel, decorate with a few cranberries adding the final touch by giving it a brief mist of the essential oil over the top.
