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Cocktail recipes

REFRESHING SUMMER SIPS

abulous new book (£9.99, Ryland, Peters & Small) is full of easy cocktails, mocktails and spritzes, Fill a highball glass with ice cubes and add 50ml rum, 15ml orange Curaçao, 15ml freshly squeezed lime juice and 2 dashes Angostura bitters. Top up with chilled ginger beer, stir gently to mix, then garnish with an orange zest spiral. For the lemonade, blitz 20 ripe strawberries to a purée in a blender. Add the finely grated zest and juice of 4 lemons, 6 tbsp sugar and a handful of fresh mint leaves to a pitcher and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Fill the pitcher with ice cubes, add the blended strawberries and top up with soda water.