Recipes: Gin cocktails
The Queen Mother (pictured above)
Ingredients
25ml Portobello Road Gin
25ml Dubonnet
20ml Aperol
5ml Dark Jamaican Rum
Method
Stir all the ingredients with ice in a mixing glass or jug, not for too long, ten seconds should do it.
Strain the drink into a stemmed cocktail glass or the classic Martini glass leaving the ice in the mixing vessel.
Garnish with a twist of lemon and a twist of orange.
Gin Mimosa
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."
Ingredients
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
Jake Burger says "Invite you're mates over and knock their socks off with this opulent Amaretti and Pecan shake...just don't be fooled by its non-alcoholic taste because it certainly packs a punch!"
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)
Jake Burger's Clover Club
Ingredients50mls 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 coupette or martini glass
Garnish with a raspberry
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