Recipes
Love gin? Love food? Love creating delicious gin flavoured recipes? We do. At For the Love of Gin we will show you how easy it is to make recipes using your favourite spirit. Anything from sloe gin fudge to lemon and gin curd. Read on to find out how.
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Gin Spritz
Gin Spritz is the simplest cocktail to make and in some ways the nicest. Originally a cocktail from the latter half of the 19th century from the regions of Northern Italy where it meant ‘splash’, it was white wine topped with soda water to dilute it.
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Rhubarb Syrup
This recipe for rhubarb syrup is one of the first cocktail syrups I make every year. The rich flavours and excesses of Christmas are a distant memory. Pancake Day was all too brief and I’m searching like an ant for some unashamed sugary sweetness.
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Martinez
The Martinez cocktail is the grandmother of the martini, emerging some time in the latter half of the 19th Century. A riff on the whisky-based Manhattan, it first appeared in print in O.H. Byron’s 1884 The Modern Bartender as a footnote to the more popular whisky cocktail. Originally the Martinez called for Dutch genever but for a long time now has been made with London Dry gin. Jerry Thomas’ 1887 Bar-tenders Guide lists Old Tom as the main ingredient. This recipe uses Thomas’ Old Tom gin which I think gives it a softer more balanced ‘ginny’ profile. I’m also not very fond of the malty genever. But if that is…
