Recipe by Heather Thomas
Carve out 20 minutes for yourself one spring day and make this drink. Marvel at the transformation of fibrous rhubarb to bittersweet syrup.
This syrup is enough for 4 refreshing rhubarb and mint sodas or, spiked with 50 ml/2 fl oz of vodka or gin, 4 cocktails.
Makes
250 ml/9 fl oz syrup
Ingredients for the syrup
200 g/7 oz sugar
300 ml/1/2 pint water
280 g/10 oz rhubarb, roughly
1 stalk, chopped
For the soda
Sprig of mint
50 ml//2 fl oz syrup
Ice
Sparkling water
Method
- Put the sugar and water into a saucepan over a low heat and stir constantly until the sugar dissolves. Add the rhubarb and infuse for 20 minutes. Strain the rhubarb and store the syrub in the frideg for a week. Munch the rhubarb as it is, or serve over icecream.
2. Rub a mint leaf in your fingers to release the oil and then run it around the rim of a tall glass filled with ice. Pour in the syrup, top with sparkling water and add the mint.
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