La Petite Maison's Drink – How to Make It

WThis is a home-style version of a cocktail featured on our latest menu. Designed as a party-sized pre-mixed that's bursting with tastes of the Christmas time, which makes it ideal for your celebration. Reserve the remaining syrup for breakfast cocktails, desserts, or to make additional servings of bikinis.

Bikini Recipe

Serves 10 guests

For the Clementine Syrup (makes 750ml)

300ml recently pressed clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g granulated sugar

For the Premix (produces 850ml, serving 10)

400ml good quality vodka
100ml dry gin
150ml peach liqueur
200ml clementine cordial (as made above)
Fresh cranberries, to garnish
Mandarin essential oil, for finishing

Instructions

For the Syrup: Place every components in a pan, heat until it reaches a gentle boil, mixing until the sugar dissolves. After that, turn off the stove and let it to reach room temperature entirely. Decant into a clean bottle, close it and refrigerate it in the fridge, it can be stored for around one month.

For the Cocktail Base: Pour the specified liquids into one large bottle, leave to sit for one hour, then pass it through preferably using a fine cloth, making it fully clarified.

To serve: Add 85ml from the premix into your stirring glass containing ice, and stir carefully for a minute to cool it down. Filter into a cold coupe glass or a similar vessel, decorate with a few cranberries adding the final touch with a quick spritz with the mandarin essence above the glass.

Lee Reyes
Lee Reyes

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