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Plum & Basil Smash 

Plums

Created by Hope Distillers
(The traditional cocktail is the basil smash)

Ingredients

  • 1 plum
  • 4-6 basil leaves
  • Black pepper
  • Rich sugar syrup – to make a rich sugar syrup bring 2 parts sugar and 1 part water to just under a boil and keep just under boiling until all sugar is dissolved, let cool and bottle, refrigerate for up to a month
  • Lemon juice
  • 50ml Hope Limited Release Gin

Method

  1. Muddle a quarter to half a plum with 4-6 basil leaves and a crack or two of black pepper in a shaker
  2. Add 5-10ml sugar syrup, 15-25ml lemon juice and 50ml Hope Limited Release Gin, 20ml egg white or aqua faba (optional) and ice to the shaker – start with the lower amounts of sugar syrup and lemon juice and taste along the way; add more if you feel it requires it
  3. Shake hard, fine strain into a tumbler with fresh ice, garnish with a plum wheel and basil leaf.