Drink: Cocktail recipe for June

Every month I share my favourite seasonal food and recipe ideas. In June, Elderflower is one of my favourite flavours. It's delicate but distinctive and it's almost the only floral flavour that I enjoy. And at this time of year there is nothing lovelier than an Elderflower Collins outdoors, in the evening.

Elderflower Collins

Recipe by Sipsmith Gin

Ingredients

• 40ml Sipsmith London Dry Gin

• 20ml (or to taste) elderflower cordial

• Sparkling water

• a traditional "flag" of an orange wheel and a cherry.

Instructions

1. Combine Sipsmith gin and elderflower cordial in an ice-filled Collins glass.

2. Top with sparkling water.

3. Stir gently.

4. Garnish with the orange and cherry.

And it's that easy! Just like making a G&T but so lovely on a warm summers evening. Now, I have to admit that I prefer a wedge of lemon as my garnish and I find the whole cherry/orange flag thing a bit 70s, but each to their own!

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