Ask Ashe G and T recipe

Ingredients:

2 TBSP Tetley Lemon flavoured black tea

A jar with a tight lid

2 cups Gin (clear with fewer botanicals is best such as Bombay Sapphire Original)

To Serve:

½ cup Lemon juice

2 TBSP Simple syrup**

4 cups Ginger ale

Method

1. Add 2 cups of gin to the jar.
2. Open the Tetley Lemon flavoured black teabags and measure out 2 TBSP of dry tea leaves, add to the gin and seal the jar for at least a week*.
3. When you’re ready to use it, use a fine sieve to strain the tea leaves from the gin and pour into a glass bottle – unless you’re going to make a big jug immediately.
4. **To make simple syrup, boil 1 cup of white sugar with 1 cup of water, stirring occasionally until the sugar has dissolved. Combine the gin infusion, lemon juice, simple syrup and lots of ice in a jug and stir, then add the ginger ale and stir gently
5. Serve immediately. Serves 6