WHere is a home-style interpretation of a beverage featured on our latest menu. Designed as a large-volume prepared mix that is bursting full of flavours associated with holiday season, making it excellent for hosting a celebration. Any leftover cordial to use in brunch beverages, desserts, or for additional servings of bikinis.
The Bikini Cocktail
Serves 10 servings
Ingredients for the Clementine Cordial (makes 750ml)
300ml newly squeezed clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g fine sugar
For the Cocktail (produces 850ml, to serve 10)
400ml premium vodka
100ml London dry gin
150ml peach-flavored liqueur
200ml clementine cordial (as made above)
Whole cranberries, for garnish
Mandarin essential oil, for finishing
Instructions
For the Cordial: Combine every ingredients in a pot, bring to a gentle boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Next, turn off the burner allowing it to cool down entirely. Decant into a sterilised bottle, cap it keeping it chilled, it will last for around a month.
For the Cocktail Base: Pour every spirits and syrup in a sizeable container, leave to sit for an hour, then pass it through preferably using muslin, making it perfectly clear.
For serving: Measure 85ml of the batch mix to a mixing glass packed with ice, and agitate carefully for a minute to cool it down. Filter into an frosted cocktail glass or similar, decorate with some cranberries adding the final touch with a brief mist of mandarin oil over the drink.
