This a strawberry and cream filled Wimbledon Martini cocktail that is perfect for sitting in the sun and watching Wimbledon unfold.
Please note: We think too much as been done on Pimm’s and wanted to look at something new.
Serve in: A Martini Glass
3 fresh Strawberry’s, hulled of course
1.5 shots of White Rum (whichever you have in the cupboard)
1.5 shots of Strawberry Liqueur
.25 shot of sugar syrup (2:1) (Gomme)
.5 shot of unsweetened single cream
Half a strawberry for garnish
Method:
Muddle those strawberries in the bottom of your shaker to get the sugars out of the fruit
Add all the other ingredients
Shake with ice
Double/fine strain into a chilled martini glass
Pretty much ever since the oldest and most famous of the four grand slams was first played in this leafy suburban corner of south-west London in 1877, the strawberry has had its place as an indispensable accompaniment to the tennis.
Well-to-do spectators at the All England Club’s original Worple Road grounds — the club moved to its more exclusive home in the Church Road area of SW19 in the 1920s — munched strawberries as they watched matches in the early days.
And the soft red fruit remains part of the furniture at the Wimbledon of the 21st century, so much so that 28,000kg of them are eaten at the tournament each year.
So why strawberries?
here is no definitive answer, but the most likely explanation appears to be a simple combination of circumstances.
“It was probably two things — strawberries were in season at the time the tournament was played, and in Victorian England they had become a fashionable thing to eat,” explains Johnny Perkins, the All England Club’s head of PR.
“They were part of afternoon tea, which had become a fashionable ritual, and that took root at Wimbledon.”
Perkins says the strawberries, served in baskets of 10 costing around $3.90 USD (cream and sugar are optional) are part of the air of old-fashioned Englishness that pervades Wimbledon, with its ivy-covered walls and players dressed in white.
“Many people see Wimbledon as being like tennis in an English garden,” he adds. “The tennis is the main thing, of course — but it is a big part of the English summer and is a day out for people as well.”
What do you think? A good Wimbledon Cocktail?
Sources: CNN, Diffords Recipe from Difford’s Guide | For discerning drinkers
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