Ginger Legs
This ginger and spiced rum cocktail is strong and extremely tasty. Before you know it you’ve had three and your legs are feeling ginger. Hehe!
I know bitters are not a common pantry ingredient but we tend to have a bottle in our house most of the time. You only use a few drops at a time so a bottle lasts for ages. And they are useful to deepen flavour in many drinks. It is an unusual ingredient worth buying.
Confession: This is a stronger version of a mixed drink, called Ginger Square, we had many times in our World Cup trip to South Africa in 2010. They use a ginger liqueur, called Oude Meester, that we can’t get in Australia, so we needed a work around for home.
Recipients: Ginger lovers, friends with a sore throat
Type: Mix In Glass
EQUIPMENT
Martini or small scotch glass
Stirring implement like a chopstick or spoon
INGREDIENTS
Bitters
30ml spiced rum
30ml Stone’s Green Ginger Wine
Cloudy ginger beer
15ml lemon juice
Slice of fresh ginger
METHOD
Sprinkle a few drops of bitters in your glass.
Add spiced rum, Stone’s Green Ginger Wine and lemon juice.
Fill your glass with cloudy ginger beer.
Bruise the slice of fresh ginger by poking it with a knife then add it to your glass.
ADJUST
Add more lemon juice if you need more pep than it already has.
SERVE
Serve it in the glass you made it in.
OPTIONAL
If you don’t have ginger beer you can also use ginger ale. It will be a little less sweet and gingery but looks more clean in the glass.
Anecdote: Sue Henry loves ginger and this is a cocktail we first enjoyed with our newly married friends, Sarah Byrne and Therese McCay, while our grooms were watching football.
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