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
- gin 750ml bottle
- clementines 3
- caster sugar 3 tbsp
- ginger 50g, sliced and bashed
- bay leaves 3
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.
