* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Breakfast martini
The perfect martini for brunch
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Total Time5 minutesmins
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: British
Servings: 2
Calories: 252kcal
Author: Max Halley and Ben Benton
Equipment
Cocktail shaker
Ingredients
Ice
2tbspfine-cut marmalade
100mlgin
2tbsptriple sec or Cointreau
2tbsplemon juice
1 slice of bread, toasted
Method
Put a few lumps of ice in a martini glass and fill it with water to chill.
Put the marmalade in a cocktail shaker with the gin and triple sec and stir and stir until the marmalade has dissolved.
Fill the shaker with ice, add the lemon juice and stir and stir and stir making sure the spoon goes right to the bottom of the shaker. Don’t shake it like that philistine Bond, it will only water it down.
Stir 50 times – count them. The shaker will have become so frosty and cold you will hardly be able to touch it.
Sling the iced water from the glass and pour the sparkly liquid through a sieve into it. On the side of your martini, have a slither of cold, heavily buttered toast with marmalade on it. Why should the toast be cold? Because as my mum says, ‘Butter should be ON toast, not IN toast’.