Recipe: White Lady, a Classic Gin Cocktail

The white lady loves you more

Gin and tonic is the quintessential thirst quencher in our household, especially on those summer evenings when water is too lame as an option.  When Mark Gill, aka @TheCocktailGeek, tweeted White Lady, a tart, but refreshing classic cocktail, we made a mental note to make it as soon as a perfect spring day presented itself.  If you appreciate the idea of a citrus infused gin (with a frothy delicious, light topping), you will find White Lady a welcomed addition to your repertoire.

Prep time: 3 min
Makes: 1 fine refreshing cocktail

White Lady Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 fl. oz. Lemon juice
• 1 fl. oz. Gin, we used Tanqueray
• 1 fl. oz. Triple Sec
• 1 Egg white
• 4 cubes Ice
• 2cm strip Lemon zest

Method:

1. Pour the gin, triple sec and egg white into a cocktail shaker and shake for 5 seconds.
2. Add the ice to the shaker and shake for a further 10 seconds
3. Pour into a chilled martini glass and lay the strip of lemon zest onto the foam.

Recipe courtesy of Mark Gill a.k.a. @TheCocktailGeek on Twitter

Cocktail Recipe: 3 Kings - Trio of Royale (Champagne) Christmas Cocktails

We Three Kings

 There are moments when blogging can take its toll on you.  Tonight has not been one of them.  We are in count down mode to our Christmas Party on Saturday and for the next few nights we will be writing about our trials and tribulation (aka disaster and victories) as we move closer to our impending celebration!

Tonight, we decided to have some fun with our extensive drinks cabinet and experiment to come up with 3 sensational Royale champagne cocktails.  Whilst we have used champagne (Lanson), there is no reason why you cannot use a prosecco or cava as less expensive alternative… sparkling is the name of the game.

Merry Gin-ger Royale

We wanted to have a gingery cocktail and make it look wonderfully festive.  The underlying sentiment was to chrimbo-ise the French 75.  Here it is folks:

As per usual, below serves 2:

• 4 mint leaves, torn
• 1 shot of gin
• ½ shot of ginger syrup (available in Waitrose)
• 2 morello cherries
• 2 sugar cubes
• Champagne

1. In a cocktail shaker mix the mint leaves, gin and ginger syrup. 
2. Muddle (ie crush and stir) the mint leaves  
3. Pour into a champagne flute
4. Drop your cherries in and then the sugar cubes
5. Top with champagne

Cooled Mulled Royale

This cocktail is a twist on gluwein (German mulled wine), which we adore.  Can we also recommend the apple cider stall in Borough Market.  Their spice apple cider is to die for!

• 1 shot of Cranberry
• 1 shot of Apple juice
• ¼ shot of sugar syrup (i.e. 50% water, 50% sugar)
• 1 shot of Absolut Raspberry vodka
• ½ tsp allspice
• 1 sliver slice of red apple, halved
• Champagne

1. In a cocktail shaker add the cranberry juice, apple juice, sugar syrup (to taste), vodka and allspice. Stir.
2. Pour into a champagne flute
3. Add the sliver of apple
4. Top with champagne 

Clementine Royale

Clementines are a seasonal citrus fruit worth taking advantage of.  It is related to the orange, but it is much sweeter.  We sourced our juice from Morrisons, but you could use orange juice if you could not find any.

• 1 shot of Rum
• 1 shot of Martini Rosso
• A dash of Angostura Bitter
• 1 ½ shot of Clementine juice
• Champagne
• 2 long, curled strip of orange zest

1. In a cocktail shaker add the Rum, Martini Rosso, Angostura Bitter, Clementine juice.  Stir.
2. Pour into a champagne flute
3. Top with champagne
4. Add the orange zest

The above cocktails have been created using imagination and a wonderful array of booze!  It’s enormous fun experimenting with flavours.  Cheers all!