Beverage recipes
The hot cross bun martini
Easy
Ingredients
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For the spiced sugar syrup:
- 100 g sugar
- ½ cup water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- fresh ginger, to taste
- 1 star anise
- a few cloves For the cocktail:
- ice, for mixing
- 3 T vodka (or gin)
- 1 T spiced syrup
- 1 T dry vermouth
- 2 T clear apple juice (optional)
- orange peel, for garnish
Method
1. Prepare the spiced sugar syrup in advance: simmer sugar and water with 1 cinnamon stick, sliced fresh ginger, 1 star anise and a few cloves.
2. Strain and chill; the syrup will keep well in the fridge*.
3. To a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add vodka (or gin), spiced syrup, dry vermouth and clear apple juice. Shake, pour, and garnish with orange peel.
Cook's note: *Alternatively: add a dash of syrup to brandy, whisky or cognac on ice for, quite possibly, the perfect autumn nightcap.
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Photograph: Andrea Van Der Spuy
Production: Bianca Strydom
Food assistant: Irinja Bekker