Christmas gin with clementine
Published: December 9, 2016 at 1:42 PM
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Makes 750ml
Easy
Total time: 15 mins
plus 3 days infusing
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Infuse your own gin with festive flavours of clementine, ginger and bay, then wrap it up nice and give it to a special someone this Christmas. It's a unique and thoughtful gift that's really easy to make
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Make this Christmas gin for a special gift, then check out our blackberry gin, mulled gin and more Christmas gift recipes.
To make your own Christmas gin, it’s worth spending money on good-quality base gin; most brands are on special offer at Christmas. Choose one without too many botanicals, like Gordon’s. Or try one of our favourite British gins here.
Ingredients
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750ml bottle gin
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3 clementines
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3 tbsp caster sugar
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50g ginger
sliced and bashed
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3 bay leaves
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Method
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step 1
Pour the gin into a large bowl, or jar.
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step 2
Peel 3 strips of zest from the clementines, then peel them and remove all the white pith from the segments.
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step 3
Add the segments and the zest strips to the gin along with the sugar, ginger and bay leaves.
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step 4
Leave to infuse for 3 days, then decant into smaller bottles, or 1 big bottle. Serve with tonic and a couple of the orange segments in each glass.
Make some of our other homemade Christmas gifts to go with your Christmas gin.
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