Jul 12 2009
Pleasant Surprise
I just, on Dougal’s suggestion, made myself a drink by the recipe on the back of a bottle of sugar syrup. Now I deviated somewhat, in that while it was a bottle of Monin Sugar Syrup, Dougal had just refilled the bottle with home made sugar syrup. Equally, whilst called for Monin Elderflower Syrup I used regular Thorncroft’s Elderflower cordial. 20ml sugar syrup, 10ml elderflower, a squeeze of lemon juice and top it up with tonic water.
It tasted like bitter lemon! It was very sweet- not surprisingly- and yet also very bitter and tart, almost savoury. I’d only used a 150ml can of tonic and I reckon a bit more could easily have gone in (need to check which type of glass it was I was supposed to be topping up with tonic!) and probably a whole measure of lemon juice. Regardles of these tweaks it was refreshing and tasty…and now, Gone!
Looks quite yummy!