Cocktail Friday: Sloe Gin Pink Lady

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, Updated Jan 18, 2021

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Sloe Gin Pink Lady – a gorgeous gin-based cocktail, perfect for sipping on Valentine’s Day. I usually double the quantities to serve two.

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.

Elephant Sloe gin is also lovely for mixing in cocktails – try it in a sloe gin and tonic with a dash of orange bitters or make a sloe gin Pink Lady cocktail. Pink Lady is another Prohibition favourite championed by Zelda Fitzgerald herself. Normally it is made with apple brandy, but I think the sloe gin version is pretty delicious too. It would also make a lovely Valentine’s Day drink…

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.

My thanks to 31.Dover.com for providing the ingredients to make this cocktail.

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