Gin cocktail recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has cucumber, elderflower cordial, gin and tonic water.
Elderflower & cucumber G&Ts
Course: Gin cocktail
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Cucumber: 10 cm piece of cucumber
- Elderflower Cordial: 100ml elderflower cordial
- Gin: 100ml gin
- Tonic Water: 1l bottle tonic water, to serve
Directions
- Peel 2 long strips from the piece of cucumber and put in a small tupperware for transporting. Grate the remaining cucumber into a sieve set over a bowl and press down on it with the back of a spoon to extract as much juice as possible. Add the elderflower cordial and gin to the cucumber juice and put in a bottle ready for travelling. At your picnic, wind the strips of cucumber around inside 2 glasses, pour in a quarter of the cucumber gin mixture, and top up with with a quarter of the bottle of tonic water to serve.
