This is the most fun festival of the year. Get your costume on and mix up a few cocktails to celebrate!
March 19, 2019 14:21
For a religion of reputed non-drinkers, we seem to have plenty of alcohol-connected festivals. The weekly kiddush is made with wine or whisky and we celebrate the Torah’s birthday with a belly full of booze. (Drunk responsibly, of course.)
Purim does little to buck the trend. In a couple of days we’ll be marking Mordechai and his niece, Esther outwitting the evil Haman (booooo!) with fancy dress, a rainbow of hamantaschen and multi-coloured cocktails.
Here are a few recipes to whet your appetite:

Ingredients:
Handful fresh oregano leaves
60ml celery juice
30ml lime
30ml agave* syrup
60ml Levantine Gin
Atlantic sea salt for the rim
Method:
Ingredients:
60ml Milk and Honey New Make
25ml ginger syrup *
15ml lime
Club soda
Handful mint
Method:
* To make fresh ginger syrup: Juice ginger root through a centrifugal juicer, then mix equal part of granulated sugar and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. If this sounds too much of a faff, you can either use syrup from a jar of crystallised ginger OR sub ginger beer for the fresh ginger syrup and club soda.
Ingredients:
50ml Bacardi 8 year old
50 ml Walder’s Creamy Banoffee
2 bar spoons of Jaegermeister
15ml Luxardo Maraschino
Method:
Ingredients:
½ orange
1 lemon
12.5ml sugar syrup
50ml Walders Creamy Banoffee
5ml Skyy vodka
Method:
Ingredients:
30ml Walders Creamy Coffee Liqueur
20ml Crème de Menthe (White)
25ml milk
Method:

Ingredients:
35ml Walder’s Creamy Liqueur
15ml Grand Marnier
4 pineapple chunks
1 slice red chilli
5ml fresh lime
Method:

Award winning Israeli mixologist, Noam Hass, has suggested his Takeaway Gin
Ingredients:
50 ml Tanquery number 10
20 ml passion fruit syrup
10 ml fresh lemon juice
50 ml fever tree ginger beer
Garnish: lemon zest
Method:
So what are you waiting for? Get that Purim party started!
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