A Strawberry Cocktail

One of the benefits of making Eton Mess was the leftover strawberry syrup which makes a very nice cocktail.

 

 Strawberry Cocktail

1 measure Strawberry Syrup
1 measure Vodka
0.5 measure Triple Sec
0.5 measure Lime Juice or Sour Mix


Chill a cocktail glass in the freezer.  Put some ice in a cocktail shaker and add all the ingredients.  Shake the cocktail with ice and strain in a cocktail glass.  Decorate with a strawberry or mint leaves.


 

Strawberry Syrup

(https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/jun/28/foodanddrink.shopping)

750 g Strawberries Quartered
70 g Sugar

Place the strawberries and sugar in a bowl that fits snugly over a saucepan containing a few cm of barely simmering water (a ban marie).  Cover the bowl with clingfilm and cook gently for 90 minutes, making sure the water doesn't evaporate.

Strain the syrup from the strawberries by lining a bowl with muslin or a clean J-cloth. Tie the cloth with string to form a bag and suspend the bag of strawberries over a bowl to allow the syrup to drip through.  This is best done overnight in a fridge, but my fridge didn't allow for that so I suspended the bag over a bowl from the handles of a kitchen cabinet.