Cocktails with lime cordial
Make your own
- 250 g (1¼ cups) white sugar
- 240 ml (1 cup) hot water
- 45 ml (3 tbsp) fresh lime juice
- 8 g (3 tbsp) freshly grated lime peel
- 25 g (2 tbsp) citric acid
How to make it
- 1Heat the water until good and hot; it need not boil.
- 2Put everything in a blender and blend on medium speed for 30 seconds.
- 3Strain through a fine strainer, bottle and refrigerate.
The citric acid gives the bracing tartness of Rose’s. The Irish Times version is a thinner cordial for diluting: the juice of 10 limes and 2 tsp citric acid in a syrup of 1 litre water and 500 g sugar, simmered briefly, with no peel.
Recipe: Jeffrey Morgenthaler: How to Make Your Own Lime Cordial (Rose’s Lime Juice) · Checked against: The Irish Times: Lime cordial
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