I wanted to do a few home made Christmas gifts this year and what better than a Christmas tipple. My friend Sarah gave me a recipe she found in a magazine, which of course I've now lost. But I tweaked the recipe slightly anyway so see below how Billy and I made this rather pleasing looking drink.
Start by pricking each cranberry. Yes this is as tedious as it sounds. However, it's necessary for the gin to go in and the juice to come out. Then put the cranberries into your sterilised bottles. Divide as evenly as possible and if you have smaller bottles as well then fill as much as you can. Then add your orange and lemon peels.
Put your sugar into the gin and stir it until the sugar is dissolved. Then using a funnel, pour the sweet gin into the bottles until full.
Seal and keep in a cool place for two weeks, after which you can pop it open and enjoy however you wish. Think I'll be doing a classy G & T with ours!!
Ingredients (makes 2 and a half litres of gin)
300g Fresh Cranberries
2 Litres Gin- It doesn't need to be that great a Gin. And, you might not need to use all of it. The size of your cranberries and the bottles you use might mean that quantities slightly differ. As I packed my bottles with lots of peel (because I liked the look), I ended up with a bit of spare Gin. You can always add some more peel to this and make up and extra bottle. It looks great even with just the peel and no cranberries.
Zest of 2 oranges and 2 lemons, sliced nice and thinly.
400g Caster Sugar to dissolve into the Gin
