A defacto rum-and-coke from Lyre’s.
I’ve never actually been a rum-and-coke person, so this made me feel like I was at uni having a drink with the engineering guys, instead of my native IT guys (who were more into wine and cheese nights).
This was nice. Sweet, gently tart, fizzy. I had ordered it from https://www.woodlane.com.au/products but it looks like they rebuilt their website and you have to find a local stockist. Somehow. It’s handy to have around, but it wasn’t really exciting. Just a nice, gentle, Aussie native mocktail.
This is so addictive. Pink grapefruit cordial mixed with soda water, it’s the perfect pre-dinner drink. Just get some.
Woolworths, Coles and specialty stores all now have fantastic ranges of fruit cordials these days. I started taking cordials seriously after discovering a ginger and rhubarb cordial at an exotic deli in Crows Nest and then discovered the pleasures of elderflower and pomegranate cordial from Woolies. Discovering this pink grapefruit flavour was a happy day, as I’ve always loved pink grapefruit, since having a tree in the backyard growing up. Heavenly!
Ingredients
Bickfords pink grapefruit cordial
Soda water
Garnish with slice of pink grapefruit and sugar-rimmed glass
Instructions
Decorate the glass by pressing the rim of the glass into your grapefruit to wet it (or a lemon, or water, if you don’t have one)
Then press the rim into a plate of sugar, to make pretty
Fill glass halfway with ice cubes
Prepare your soda water – either bottled, or fizz it in a sodastream
Add cordial and soda water to taste – roughly 1 part cordial to 4 parts water
Muddle together the blackberries, honey, and mint until very well blended.
Add the lemon juice and water, cover, and shake to mix.
Strain the mixture into two glasses with ice
Top each glass with 1 cup of soda water
Garnish with blackberries and mint leaves
Keywords: blackberry mint honey mocktail
I almost followed the instructions, muddled everything together in a steel bowl, so that I had more room, instead of the shaker. In hindsight, using a shaker would have worked better, getting all of the flavours together. But it looked pretty.
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