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Winded cucumber cocktail

Matt Wilkinson

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Summer salute: Cucumber cocktail.
Summer salute: Cucumber cocktail.Eddie Jim

Recently many different varieties of cucumbers have become locally available; beautiful, round and apple-shaped, lemon cucumbers or the long, ribbed Armenian ones to point to just a few. But even the more familiar Lebanese or continental cucumber can be smartened up. For something unique, how about a simple martini-like cocktail? We have one on the Bishop of Ostia menu called the Winded Cucumber, made with spirits from around Australia.

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Ingredients

  • 3cm piece of cucumber peeled

  • 30ml West Winds 'Sabre' gin

  • 30ml Maidenii sweet vermouth

  • 15ml Pennyweight Fino

  • 7ml simple sugar syrup

  • some ice (about a cup)

Method

  1. Place the cucumber piece into a large cocktail shaker and, using a muddling stick (like a small rolling pin – or just use a wooden spoon) smash it up. By the way, in the cocktail world this is called muddling … crazy, I know.

    Add the other ingredients and stir like a martini. It's a good idea to pretend you're James Bond and say the line, just as Sean Connery would.

    Now take your desired glass; we like the rounded martini shape and double strain into the glass.

    Garnish with a sexy ribbon of cucumber on a toothpick, or even one of those plastic colourful camel picks (whatever you fancy really).

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