New Year's Eve recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 15 mins; recipe has apple cider vinegar, sparkling water, pear, apricots, golden caster sugar, honey, rosemary and lemon zest.
Faux fizz
Course: New Years Eve
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Rosemary: 1 sprig rosemary, plus extra to garnish (optional)
- Honey: 25g honey
- Golden Caster Sugar: 75g golden caster sugar
- Lemon Zest: 1 strip lemon zest
- Pear: 1 sliced pear
- Apple Cider Vinegar: 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- Sparkling Water: sparkling water, to top up
- Apricots: 4 dried apricots
Directions
- To make the base syrup, put the sliced pear, dried apricots, golden caster sugar, honey, sprig of rosemary and a strip of lemon zest in a saucepan with 100ml water. Heat for 10 mins or until the sugar has dissolved and the pear is very soft, then leave to cool completely.
- Strain the syrup into a jug, add the apple cider vinegar and chill in the fridge for at least 30 mins. Pour about 25ml of the syrup into a champagne flute and top with cold sparkling water. Garnish with a rosemary sprig, if you like.
