Fresh green gimlet

Method

1. Spoon the sugar into a tumbler, squeeze over the lime juice and stir to dissolve.

2. Add the mint leaves and stab away at them in the tumbler with the end of a rolling pin; this is what's known in the business as 'muddling'.

3. Add the vodka and ice, swill to mix and then top up with the dash of fizzy water.

Cooks note: This takes inspiration in part from a mojito, that bar classic of the late nineties - mint, sugar syrup, lime, rum and soda - and in part from a gimlet, that intense and trad mix of vodka and lime cordial. And frankly, this child outstrips either of its parents. When I gave it to a friend to taste after making it for the first time, I had to fight to get the glass back from her.

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Ingredients

1 tbsp caster sugar
1 lime, juice only
1 handful mint leaves, fresh
50ml vodka
1 handful ice cubes
1 dash of fizzy mineral water, (or to taste)

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