La Petite Maison's Cocktail – The Method
WHere is a home-style take on a drink from our latest menu. This is a large-volume premix that's loaded full of flavours associated with holiday season, rendering it ideal for your celebration. Reserve the remaining syrup you can use for breakfast cocktails, puddings, or for another batch of bikinis.
The Bikini Cocktail
Yields 10 servings
For the Clementine Syrup (yields 750ml)
300ml newly squeezed clementine juice
200ml newly squeezed lemon juice
500g caster sugar
For the Cocktail (makes 850ml, to serve 10)
400ml good quality vodka
100ml London dry gin
150ml peach schnapps
200ml clementine cordial (from the recipe above)
A few cranberries, as a garnish
Mandarin essential oil, as a final touch
Instructions
For the Citrus Syrup: Put every components inside a saucepan, heat until it reaches a light boil, stirring so the sugar melts. Then, take off the stove and let it to cool down entirely. Pour into a clean bottle, cap it and refrigerate it chilled, where it will keep for up to a month.
Preparing the Batch Mix: Pour every spirits and syrup into one sizeable container, leave to sit for 60 minutes, then pass it through , ideally through a fine cloth, so it's fully clarified.
When ready to serve: Measure 85ml from the cocktail base into your stirring glass filled with ice, and stir gently for about 60 seconds until cold. Filter into a frosted cocktail glass or equivalent, decorate with some cranberries and finish by giving it a light spray of mandarin oil above the glass.
