Cocktail Friday: Sloe Gin Pink Lady
, Updated Jan 18, 2021
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It is Friday, it is practically the end of the month (well a week off but near enough), it’s time to let our hair down and have a much needed cocktail. For despite being on a diet and eating very healthily of late, I haven’t given up on cocktails entirely. For one thing January is bleak and depressing and for another… I love cocktails too much. I know some of you have sworn off alcohol altogether to take part in Dry January, but others are enjoying #GINuary (check out the Twitter feed). I fall somewhere in the middle – enjoying the occasional drink but certainly cutting back on the imbibing.
And since I am drinking a lot less, I am making those rare occasions count! 31Dover.com very kindly sent me a bottle of Elephant Sloe Gin and it is delicious for sipping on its own – just the right side of sweet, tart, fruity and with decent alcohol content. It also comes in a beautiful custom made bottle with a handwritten label. If that isn’t incentive enough to get sipping, the company donates 15% of all proceeds from every bottle of sloe gin to Big Life Foundation and Space For Elephants which are committed to save the African elephant from extinction.
Cocktail Friday: Sloe Gin Pink Lady
Ingredients
- 1 measure 25ml sloe gin
- 1 measure 25ml gin
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- ½ tbsp egg white
- 1 tsp grenadine
Instructions
- Put a martini glass in the freezer for 10 minutes to chill.
- Add all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with plenty of ice. Shake hard for 30 seconds and then strain into a large glass.
- Empty the shaker of ice and then shake the cocktail again to froth up the egg white.
- Pour into the chilled glass and garnish with some lemon zest or a twist if you like.
When I was a kid in the 70’s my mother enjoyed a cocktail made with Sloe Gin, simple syrup, lemon juice and half and half. I always thought it was called a Slow Gin Fizz or a Pink Lady??? Any idea where I could get a recipe or a name for this cocktail.
I am not sure but this one comes close (https://cocktailpartyapp.com/drinks/sloe-gin-fizz/)
look great, pefect for the
dating lady situation!
The Elephant sloe gin is a bit cloudy and that provides the colour – but the addition of egg whites makes it a bit more cloudy/frothy.
I wondered how you got this amazing colour, so it's the addition of the egg whites? I love Sloe Gin and I'm always looking for new ways to drink it, rather than neat from the bottle 🙂
I LOVE slow gin, I could drink a bottle of it by myself in one sitting (and have done…), far more sensible to use it in a cocktail though! x
It's really NOT more sensible. But it is a lot of fun. I love drinking it neat too – this one has incredible flavour and quite a bit of bite!
This cocktail is so beautiful I want to cry. I haven't had one in nearly a month!! I need to come over to your house and partake soon because no one makes them better than you and that is simple truth, my friend!
We MUST put a cocktail date in the diary. Party at my house! Seriously – the egg white is pure protein, very dietary 😉
Perfect!
I tried sloe gin for the first time a few weeks ago and oh my word its awesome. This cocktail looks incredible!
I knew I shouldn't have looked, Lucy! Dry January is dry in every sense and seems endless. This is beyond temptation… <3 x
I adore sloe gin, though I've not tried any commercially made ones, just various home made offerings. This cocktail sounds delicious and I love love love your styling and photography (as usual!)