Ginuary 28th: Raspberry-Rose Gin Rickey.

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So many fresh raspberries. What to do with them? Shove most of ‘em in a mixing glass.

Raspberry-Rose Gin Rickey

  • 60ml gin
  • 30ml sugar syrup
  • 30ml lime juice
  • 2/3 cup fresh raspberries
  • 2-3 dashes rosewater

 

Throw everything into a mixing glass. Let stand 1 hour at room temperature, occasionally stirring and crushing some of berries. Then pour over a collins glass filled 3/4 with crushed ice. Don’t strain!

 

Ginuary 28th: Raspberry-Rose Gin Rickey.

I found this recipe the other night while browsing iPhone app Punchfork with the search term “gin”. Teamed with the fact that I had a fresh punnet of raspberries in my fridge, it was rock and roll time.

giggle

Let's get fresh.

I guess I haven’t really done a “leave to soak” recipe before; the original recipe was on a much larger scale, like a punchbowl variety. Don’t care. Scaled back for a solo run. That’s just how I roll.

no scurvy here

Seriously, though.

I’m pretty sure that, thanks to Ginuary, I’ve had a lot more exposure to fresh fruits and juices this month than I’ve ever had before. (The same could be said for alcohol, though.)

Freshly squeezed.

I’m forever more going to have mad respect for places that squeeze their own juices, etc.

precious berries

Soak, my pretties.

So I left this guy sitting on a bench for an hour or so. I came back around the halfway mark to crush some of the berries up and I think I may have given it a bit of a shake before remembering that was AGAINST THE RULES. It’s just become a force of habit with that darn steel shaker. See shaker, must shake.

JUICY ALCOHOLIC RASPBERRIES

No straining required!

DO YOU HEEEEEEEAR THE BERRIES SIIIIIIIING

Berry barricade.

Make sure you use crushed ice for this, because the berries will float (IIIIIIINTERESTINK) until you give them a bit of a stir down. Then they’ll tango with the crushed ice and it’ll be all nice and good.

See?

YUM. Tart and sweet and tasty. Have a bar spoon handy to scoop out the berries left at the bottom, because YUM.

Garnish face.

I garnished with a couple of extra raspberries and a lime wheel, plus an awesome stripy straw. Except now all I can see is a creepy garnish face.

Pre-straw... or post-straw?

The moral of the story is that this is delicious, though you may want to drink it without a straw, or with one of those massive thickshake straws. Or you might want to muddle the berries completely before pouring out. Up to you, man. Do what feels right. Just… drink it.

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