Celebrate summer with an English garden cocktail. It’s a refreshing mix of gin, elderflower cordial and apple juice, plus mint, lemon and cucumber flavours
What you’ll need.
· 5 mint leaves, bruised
· 30ml gin
· 2 tsp elderflower cordial (use more or less, depending on how sweet you like it)
· 2 tsp lemon juice
· large handful of ice
· cloudy apple juice, for topping up
· 1 long strip of cucumber, peeled using a vegetable peeler
How to make it.
· STEP 1
Mix the mint leaves, gin, elderflower cordial and lemon juice together in the bottom of a tall glass using a long-handled spoon.
· STEP 2
Add a large handful of ice, then top up with the apple juice. Stir well, then drop in the strip of cucumber before serving.