BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Summer Cocktails

What to do with all those weird and wonderful drinks you’ve brought back from holiday.

Remember sitting in a sunny piazza on holiday, relishing cool sips of the local speciality liqueur? In your enthusiasm you buy a bottle of the stuff in Duty Free, only to get it home and realise it tastes like furniture polish, and it’s left to languish at the back of the drinks cabinet for years. Food and wine writer Fiona Beckett explores why exotic drinks just don’t taste the same back home, and drinks expert Sarah Jane Evans whips up some cocktails that make even the most curious of holiday imports taste divine.

Recipes
Limoncello
Makes 1

Use a 25 ml measure. Crush together 1”/2.5cm square of peeled root ginger and 10 fresh coriander leaves. Place in a shaker or lidded jar with ice and 1 ½ shots citron/lemon vodka, ½ shot Limoncello, 1 shot pineapple juice, 1 shot apple juice. Shake and strain into a chilled Martini glass. Garnish with a coriander leaf

Jagermeister
Makes 1

Use a 25 ml measure Shake together ½ shot Malibu coconut rum liqueur and ¾ shot pineapple juice in a cocktail shaker or lidded jar with ice. Pour into a small shot glass. Pour ¼ shot Jagermeister carefully over the back of a teaspoon to form a layer.

Ouzo, (or another aniseed-flavoured liquor)
Makes 1

Use a 25ml measure Half fill a tall tumbler with ice. Pour over 3 shots cranberry juice, 2 shots of fresh grapefruit juice, 2 shots ouzo/anis/Pernod. Stir and serve

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