Hit The Spot: Jubilee Cocktail Recipes
Toast the Queen with our street party drinks
Forget white wine spritzers – an occasion like this requires a more celebratory tipple. Choose one from our Jubilee cocktail menu
1. The Sipsmith Cocktail Trio
The Campari Spritz
25ml Campari (use aperol if you prefer a softer flavour)
75ml white wine
75-100ml chilled sparkling water
Combine Campari or Aperol with white wine in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake well (about 20 seconds). Strain into a highball or suitable glass. Top with sparkling water.
The Gin Fizz
2 tsp sugar
100ml chilled sparkling water
25ml Sipsmith London dry Gin
25ml fresh lemon juice
Combine sugar and a splash of sparkling water in a cocktail shaker. Mix with a spoon until it’s at least half dissolved. Add gin and lemon juice, fill with ice and shake. Strain into a glass. Top with sparkling water.
Varsity Cooler
35ml Sipsmith barley vodka
15ml blue Curacao
1 dash Luxardo maraschino liqueur
100ml chilled sparkling water
Combine vodka, Curacao, and maraschino liqueur in an ice-filled shaker. Shake well. Strain into a highball glass. Top with sparkling water.
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2. Orange Blossom
10ml orange blossom honey
50ml bombay Sapphire
100ml lemon tonic
Garnish: 1 straw, 1 very long orange peel twist
Acclaimed florist Robbie Honey designed this drink, inspired by his love for orange blossom. Drizzle the honey into a tall glass and add the Bombay Sapphire. Stir then add ice. Top with lemon tonic and stir. Run the orange peel round the rim then feed it into the glass.
For more cocktail recipes visit bombaysapphire.com
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3. Prosecco with Nasturtium flowers
6 edible nasturtium flowers (available from specialist food shops)
A splash of rosewater
1-2 tsp golden caster sugar
A 75cl bottle of chilled prosecco
Pop a nasturtium in six champagne bowls. Add a drop of rosewater and a pinch of sugar to each glass, and top up with prosecco. Simple but intoxicating.
From Miss Hope’s Teatime Treats by Hope and Greenwood, out 7 June (£12.99, Ebury Press)
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4. The Last Rasp
3 fresh, whole raspberries
50ml bombay Sapphire
3 basil leaves
100ml tonic water
Garnish: a straw, 2 raspberries and a sprig of basil
Place 3 raspberries in a tall glass and muddle gently. Add the Bombay Sapphire and stir to mix fully before adding plenty of ice cubes. Add 3 basil leaves and top up with tonic water. Stir again then garnish the drink with a straw, two fresh raspberries and a flamboyant sprig of basil for the aroma.
