Many businesses are closing over the holiday period, and to celebrate the break you can’t do much better than Hendrick’s Gin – my all-time favourite gin.
You can find loads more recipes like these on their website.
Cucumber lemonade
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1 parts Hendrick’s Gin
1 parts lemon juice
1 parts sugar syrup
3 parts soda water
Combine all ingredients in a highball filled with cubed ice.
Lightly stir and serve.
Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber.
Hendrick’s Rickey
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2 parts Hendrick’s Gin
¾ parts lime juice
½ parts simple syrup
3 parts soda water
Combine all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.
Lightly stir.
Garnish with a cucumber spear.
The Lesley Gracie
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Lesley is the woman who created Hendrick’s Gin, and this is how she chooses to drink it.
1 parts Hendrick’s Gin
¼ parts elderflower liqueur
3 parts soda water
Combine all ingredients in a highball glass filled with cubed ice.
Lightly stir and serve.
Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber.
Orchard Collins
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2 parts Hendrick’s Gin
1 parts lemon juice
1 parts cider
1½ parts ginger beer
3 slices of apple
Cucumber Rose Garnish
Combine all ingredients in a highball filled with cubed ice.
Lightly stir and serve.
Garnish with 3 thin slices of apple and a cucumber rose.
Hendrick’s Gin Mule
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1 parts Hendrick’s Gin
â…“ parts lime juice
3 parts ginger beer
Combine all ingredients in a highball filled with cubed ice.
Lightly stir and serve.
Garnish with 3 thinly sliced rounds of cucumber & a lime wedge.
Hendrick’s Martini
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6 parts Hendrick’s Gin
1 part dry vermouth
Stir both ingredients over ice cubes in a mixing glass.
Strain into a martini glass.
Garnish with a cucumber slice.
Pocket full of green
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1½ parts Hendrick’s Gin
8 – 12 torn mint leaves
1 part cucumber juice
½ parts freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 parts aloe vera juice
1 parts soda water
Add gin, cucumber and lemon juice along with mint into a glass and gently muddle until a pulpy consistency.
Add plenty of cracked ice and churn.
Add aloe vera juice, soda and stir.
Add more crushed ice, building into a stack.
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