This is so addictive. Pink grapefruit cordial mixed with soda water, it’s the perfect pre-dinner drink. Just get some.
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
Garnish with a slice of grapefruit.
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!
Ooh yeah. A little fussy, but great great flavour. There is a lot of honey in this one, but blends nicely with the lemon and blackberries. Worth it.
From http://www.bowlofdelicious.com/2016/04/21/honey-blackberry-mint-mocktails/
This makes two mocktails.
Ingredients
8 fresh blackberries, plus more for garnish
2 oz (1/4 cup) honey
a handful fresh mint leaves (about 10)
juice of 1 lemon
1/2 cup water
2 cups soda water
Instructions
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
I almost followed the recipe correctly.
Muddled everything together in a steel bowl, so that I had more room.
In hindsight, using a shaker would have worked better, getting all of the flavours together.
But it looked pretty.
I tasted it at this step and it was divine.
But went ahead and topped it up with soda water.
Others have like this, but maybe I was a little heavy handed with the vanilla. A poor second to the honey blackberry mint mocktail. This recipe was based on https://www.lafujimama.com/blackberry-vanilla-mocktail/, with its beautiful imagery.
Ingredients
1/3 cup fresh blackberries
Juice from 1/2 a lemon
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon honey
Soda water
Instructions
Muddle the blackberries, lemon juice, vanilla and honey, in the bottom of a glass
Pour mixture through a fine mesh strainer, and again through a coffee filter until clear
Pour over ice, and fill glass with soda water
Garnish with fresh blackberries and mint leaves
It really depends on the ingredients. I think this vanilla extract was quite strong, compared to the standard vanilla essence, and I put a bit too much in, overpowering everything else.
It looked nice, after muddling, but you could still smell the vanilla strangely.
Persevered and made it, but somehow it wasn’t quite there.
Check out the honey blackberry mint mocktail instead.
Found a fantastic ginger-rhubarb syrup yesterday. With soda water, this makes for a fantastic pre-dinner drink, or a cooler for long hot summer afternoons. (more…)
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