Roushanna’s chamomile cocktails with flower ice are as refreshing as they are beautiful. Made by steeping chamomile flowers and combining with honey, the cordial is particularly good with gin and tonic or added to a glass of bubbly.
Roushanna prepares to cut her magnificent fresh flower- topped carrot cake.
CHAMOMILE COCKTAILS + FLOWER ICE TO MAKE THE CHAMOMILE SYRUP: • 1/2 cup of dried or fresh Chamomile flowers or two Chamomile teabags • ½ cup of honey • 1 cup of water METHOD: Place all the ingredients into a small pot over low heat. Bring to a boil and then gently simmer for about 15 mins. Remove from heat and strain through a sieve, squeezing the syrup out of the plants/teabag with a spoon against the sieve and decant into a sterilized bottle.
TO MAKE THE COCKTAIL: • 3 tbs Chamomile syrup • 1/3 cup of sparkling wine • Good quality tonic water • 1 x Lime
METHOD: Pour the syrup and sparkling wine into a glass, top with tonic, add a squeeze of lime, and pop in a few flower ice cubes.
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