Main Ingredient

Gin

Course

Cocktails

Suggested Wine or Spirit

Darnley's View Gin

Ingredients

• .75 cup Sugar
• 1 cup or frozen Cranberries
• 1 Lemon, cut into wedges
• .5 Orange, sliced into thin rounds
• 1.5 cups Darnley's View Gin
• .5 cup plus 1 tablespoon Dry Sack Sherry
• 6 Mint Sprigs

Directions

• Bring sugar and .75 cup water to a boil in a medium saucepan; stir until sugar is dissolved.
• Remove from heat. Pour off all but 1 cup simple syrup; refrigerate remaining syrup for other use.
• Heat syrup in pan to a boil; reduce heat to medium.
• Add cranberries and simmer until they just begin to burst.
• Let syrup cool.
• Place 2 tablespoons drained cranberries and 6 tablespoons cranberry syrup in a large pitcher.
• Add lemon wedges and orange slices.
• Using a muddler, vigorously mash fruit.
• Stir in gin and sherry, let steep for 5 minutes.
• Strain into a medium pitcher.
• Fill 3 glasses with crushed ice.
• Pour half of mixture into a cocktail shaker.