Syrup for spirits

By LyndaLee

various flavoured syrups

Ingredients

• berries and orange pekoe tea syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup each frozen (thawed) raspberries and blueberries
• 2 bags orange pekoe tea
• 1 cup boiling water, stir dissolve sugar
• cool and strain.
• refrigerate up to 2 weeks
• Lemon Rosemary syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• zest of whole lemon
• 3 fresh rosemary sprigs
• 1 cup boiling water, dissolve sugar allow to cool. remove lemon zest cover. after 36 hrs remove rosemary

Preparation

Step 1

Sunny Iced Tea
fill highball glass with ice. add 3/4 oz grand marnier, 3/4 oz amaretto, 1 oz berries & orange pekoe tea syrup, 1 oz orange juice and 2 oz ginger ale. stir to mix and garnish with an orange slice.

Berry Tea Martini
in a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add 1 1/2 oz vodka, 1/2 oz lemon juice, 1/2 oz berry and orange pekoe tea syrup and 2 oz white cranberry juice. stir until ice cold and strain into a martini glass. garnish with 1 tbsp fresh berries.