This Festive Bikini – The Method
WThis is a home-style take on a drink featured on a new menu. This is a party-sized premix that is bursting full of flavours of the festive period, making it ideal for hosting a celebration. Any leftover syrup for breakfast cocktails, sweets, or to mix additional servings of bikinis.
Bikini
Yields 10 people
For the Clementine Syrup (produces 750ml)
300ml newly squeezed clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g fine sugar
To make the Cocktail (makes 850ml, to serve 10)
400ml decent vodka
100ml classic gin
150ml peach liqueur
200ml clementine cordial (as made above)
Whole cranberries, to garnish
Mandarin essential oil, as a final touch
Instructions
Making the Syrup: Combine the listed items into a pan, bring to a gentle boil, agitating to dissolve. Then, remove from the heat and leave to cool down fully. Decant into a sterilised bottle, cap it keeping it chilled, where it will keep for up to a month.
Preparing the Premix: Mix the specified liquid ingredients into a big jug, leave to sit for one hour, then pass it through , ideally through cheesecloth, to ensure it's perfectly clear.
To serve: Add 85ml of your premix to a cocktail shaker containing ice, and agitate gently for one minute to cool it down. Strain into a chilled martini glass or similar, decorate with a few cranberries and finish using a brief mist of the essential oil over the drink.
