Cocktail of the week: Pip’s rhubarbarella – recipe | The good mixer

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Like our nutrient menu, our drinks database seeks to minimise wastage portion astatine the aforesaid clip highlighting the champion nutrient of the season. And this portion is nary different, pairing leftover unfastened achromatic oregon sparkling vino with at-its-peak rhubarb.

Rhubarbarella

Serves 1

For the rhubarb vino cordial (to marque astir 12 drinks; optional)
250g rhubarb
200ml adust achromatic oregon sparkling wine
200g caster sugar
4g black peppercorns
3 bay leaves
5g dried hibiscus
Citric acid, oregon citrus juice, to taste

For the drink
40ml adust gin – we usage Plymouth
15ml adust triple sec – we usage Mouse Kingdom’s Orange Marmalade Quad Sec, due to the fact that they’re section to america successful Manchester
50ml rhubarb vino cordial (see supra and method), oregon shop-bought rhubarb juice
50ml soda water, oregon to taste

If you’re making the cordial, lavation the rhubarb stalks, past chop them into 5cm lengths and enactment successful a cookware filled with 250ml water. Cook connected a gentle vigor until it’s falling apart, permission to cool, past strain done muslin. (At the restaurant, we adhd 1ml Pectinex and permission for 45 minutes earlier straining again, to assistance clarification, but that’s wholly optional.) Alternatively, conscionable usage a shop-bought foodstuff specified arsenic Cawston Press’s pome & rhubarb instead.

Pour the rhubarb foodstuff into a cleanable pan, adhd the wine, sugar, peppercorns, bay and hibiscus, and disturbance mildly implicit a debased vigor until the sweetener dissolves. Fine strain, permission to cool, past adhd citric acerb oregon citrus foodstuff incrementally to taste, until the cordial is agleam and tart; sensation it first, though, due to the fact that it whitethorn not request immoderate astatine all. Decant into a cleanable vessel oregon jar, past seal and store successful the fridge for up to a week. If you like, rinse and adust the bay leaves to usage arsenic a garnish later.

To physique the drink, measurement the gin, triple sec and cordial into a shaker, adhd crystal and shingle hard. Fine-strain into a highball solid filled with caller ice, apical with soda disturbance to harvester and serve.