Foraging Meadowsweet
Its oldest names are ‘Medwort’ or ‘Mead wort’ and the name meadowsweet comes not from meadows (actually it prefers to grow in wet areas of bog) but...
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Suggested Serves
Neat
GLASS: Whisky/ brandy
ICE: None
WHERE: Sipped in the setting sun
The Dreich & Stormy
GLASS: Collins
MIXER: Ginger ale/ ginger beer
ICE: Cubed
GARNISH: Fresh apple
METHOD: Pour 50ml RUM &CAKE over ice, top with ginger ale and garnish
Coffee & Cake Martini
GLASS: Martini
INGREDIENTS:
- 50ml RUM & CAKE
- 25ml Ana liqueur
- 25ml fresh coffee
METHOD: Add all of the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake hard over ice. Strain into martini glass and serve
A cake infusion
At Buck & Birch we like to celebrate our ingredients in their truest form. Flavour extraction techniques are chosen to ensure the character of the berries, botanicals and spices remain as nature intended and not stripped of their personality.
For each batch of Rum & Cake the cake is left to macerate in our carefully selected dark rum, slowly imparting all of it's delicious, molasses laden spice into the spirit.
The rum is then slowly and delicately filtered to ensure we keep all of those beautiful oils and creaminess in the finished drink and it is this that gives Rum & Cake it's beautiful soft, buttery mouthfeel and texture
“Hogseed? Parkin?” we hear you say?
