Friday’s plymouth gin punch

Feeds:: Posts; Comments

Friday’s plymouth gin punch

14 October 2011 by Aimee@clevermuffin

Something a bit different on Clever Muffin today, a drink! It’s Friday, it’s sunny, there’s things to celebrate and this just wanted to get made.

I originally came home with a bottle of champagne to toast my boyfriend’s new job. But Friday had other ideas. I think it went a little something like this:

Friday: hey, champagne, nice one.

Aimee: Yea, super fun!

Friday: But you got the cheap stuff.

Aimee: Well, no, it’s just middle of the range…we’ve just moved countries you know and budgeting…

Friday: Put the duty free gin in it. Then it’s fancy. Google ‘champagne’ and ‘gin cocktail’, doooo it.

Aimee: I hardly see how that’s fancy. I don’t even have cocktail glasses. They, er, broke in the move.

Friday: Liar.

Aimee: OK, I’ve never owned cocktail glasses. But I have a lot of jars, and that’d be kinda rustic chic right?

Friday: Oh, totally! Make me one too!

Aimee: OK!

One for me, one for the boy, one for Friday.

This punch is not for the faint hearted, it’s a bit cosmopolitan, a bit champagne cocktail, a bit gin and tonic, a whole lot of awesome.

Ingredients
2 parts gin
2 parts sparkling white wine/champagne
2 parts pom juice
1 ½ parts freshly squeezed lemon juice
½ part Cointreau
1 part sugar syrup (made by dissolving sugar in water at a ratio of 1 part sugar, 1 part water, then cooled)
¼ part all spice liquor (optional)

Method

Mix together.
Pour into jar.
Choose a swizzle stick of your choice (pencils and chop sticks are all fair game).
Forget your worries.

Posted in Drinks | Tagged gin cocktail, gin punch, plymouth gin punch | 13 Comments

13 Responses

on 14 October 2011 at 11:26 pm | Reply ceciliag

And i love it!! woohoo, champagne and gin are both in my favourite diet! and it is friday!
- on 15 October 2011 at 12:07 am | Reply Aimee@clevermuffin
  
  Gin is always in the diet! Hehe
on 15 October 2011 at 2:16 am | Reply Rufus' Food and Spirits Guide

I endorse drink recipes. This is fantastic. I love that you used jars and pencils and it still looks gourmet.
on 15 October 2011 at 4:54 am | Reply Ginger

I LOVE your coctail glasses!! You are after my heart, aren’t you?! It totally makes sence to celebrate a Friday with a fancy drink, I think I might follow suite! Cheers!
on 15 October 2011 at 6:17 am | Reply frugalfeeding

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Bombay Sapphire is my favourite… yummy.
on 15 October 2011 at 9:48 am | Reply Just A Smidgen

I’m not faint of heart… please make me one… The pencils remind me of being a teacher, how I would have loved one of those on a Friday after teaching all week. (or two or three). Beautiful photos as well!
on 15 October 2011 at 12:43 pm | Reply patty

Oh Yum, looks like a wonderful Summer adult beverage and the jars are pretty cute;-)
on 16 October 2011 at 12:48 am | Reply Geni - Sweet and Crumby

Pencils? That’s cool! 🙂 Love this post. Thanks for making me smile and the drink looks perfect for a friday night.
on 17 October 2011 at 3:07 pm | Reply Mary

This is a gorgeous drink! I love the color and it sounds delicious.
on 17 October 2011 at 10:44 pm | Reply The Hook

You could charge for this! Well done, you clever girl!
on 18 October 2011 at 6:33 am | Reply Caroline

Perfect drink for the last of these warm, sunny days. They sound refreshing and delicious!
on 21 October 2011 at 1:07 pm | Reply Jereme's Kitchen

absolutely fabulous! that reminds me that I still have my final post on champagne cocktails that needs writing!
on 16 April 2012 at 7:34 pm | Reply Evelyn

Such pretty colors! I’m sure it tasted lovely too 🙂