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Try this recipe for a gin garden fizz, then check out our English garden cocktail, gin fizz and cucumber gin fizz.


Gin garden fizz recipe

  • 200g caster sugar
  • 240ml gin
  • 120ml lemon juice
  • handful of mint leaves
    plus extra to garnish
  • 200g strawberries
    roughly chopped, with extra to garnish
  • 200g raspberries
    plus extra to garnish
  • ice
  • sparkling water
    for topping up

    Method

    • step 1

      Put the sugar in a pan with 100ml of water, and stir over a low heat until it has dissolved. Cool completely and pour into a sterilised bottle. This sugar syrup will keep in the fridge for up to a month.

    • step 2

      Put the gin, lemon juice, 60ml of the sugar syrup, the mint and fruit in a jug, and lightly muddle with the end of a rolling pin to release the juices. Fill the jug halfway with ice, top up with sparkling water and gently stir. Serve in tumblers or highball glasses garnished with fruit and mint leaves.

    Authors

    Hannah Guinness olive magazine portrait
    Hannah GuinnessSenior sub editor and drinks writer
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