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The Botanist gin cocktail – a forager’s delight

August 18, 2017 by Lucy Parissi Leave a Comment

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The Botanist gin cocktail uses blackberry jam to create a beautifully vibrant and delicious drink.

This has been a bumper season for blackberries – I honestly never seen so many and I have been picking bags and bags of them. Most have been turned into jam, which has found its way into my cakes and, of course, cocktails.

Blackberries have such a unique sweet but tart taste and they pair incredibly well with gin. Of course there’s a quite famous cocktail that uses Creme de Mure and gin – the Bramble. But I don’t know many households that have a bottle of that stuff hiding in their drinks cabinet and blackberry jam works incredibly well to replace it.

The Botanist gin cocktail uses blackberry jam to create a beautifully vibrant and delicious drink.

For the blackberry jam I have been using equal amounts of fruit and jam sugar (which contains pectin) plus juice and zest of half a lemon. Rinse the blackberries well, then put them in a large pot together with the lemon juice and zest.

Gently heat the fruit and mash them lightly with a potato masher, stir in the sugar and then gradually bring to a rolling boil – follow instructions on the sugar packaging for how long to cook the jam. Alternatively use pectin powder and regular granulated sugar.

If making jam is not your jam (see what I did there) use store-bought seedless blackberry jam. I love making jam, but I don’t love the whole preserving process so I usually make a small batch and keep it in the fridge for immediate use.

I used The Botanist gin in this cocktail – a match made in heaven since it uses 22 hand-foraged botanicals local to the Island of Islay as well as 9 more traditional gin botanicals. It is a beautiful gin that comes packaged in an equally beautiful bottle – well worth seeking out.

The Botanist gin cocktail uses blackberry jam to create a beautifully vibrant and delicious drink.

The Botanist gin cocktail uses blackberry jam to create a beautifully vibrant and delicious drink.

The Botanist gin cocktail – a forager's delight

Lucy Parissi | Supergolden Bakes
The Botanist gin cocktail uses blackberry jam to create a beautifully vibrant and delicious drink. Please note this recipe serves 2.
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Course: Cocktail
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 2
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Ingredients

  • 100 ml | 3 1/2 fl oz gin
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1-2 tsp seedless blackberry jam
  • fresh blackberries to garnish

Instructions

  • Put two martini glasses in the freezer to cool - or fill them with ice for 5 minutes.
  • Put the gin, lemon juice, jam and plenty of ice in your cocktail shaker.
  • Shake really hard for 30 seconds and use a straw to taste it. You might want to add a bit more lemon juice depending on how sweet your jam is.
  • Strain the cocktail between the two chilled glasses and garnish with fresh blackberries threaded onto a cocktail stick.
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