Recipes

For all seasons

Recipes for the
fine occasions.

Nine recipes from our own kitchen table: spritzes, long drinks without alcohol, two proper cocktails and a few things to eat. None of them takes long, and most need only a glass.

Latest recipe

Two glasses of grapefruit and rosemary spritz seen from above on a steel worktop, beside half a pink grapefruit

Made with

Sprig Spruce Tip & Lemon

Spritz

Grapefruit & rosemary spritz

Four ingredients, one glass and no shaker. The drink we make when people turn up unannounced.

5 min

Easy

Made with

Sprig Spruce Tip & Lemon

Spritz

Grapefruit & rosemary spritz

Four ingredients, one glass and no shaker. The drink we make when people turn up unannounced.

5 min

Easy

Lately on the table

More to pour

The three most recent, straight from our kitchen table.

Two coupes of blackcurrant sour seen from above on a steel worktop, a blackcurrant floating on the foam of each

Made with

Sprig Blackcurrant

Cocktail

Blackcurrant sour

Sharp, purple and a little grown-up. The one recipe here that asks for a shaker, and earns it.

10 min

Medium

Close-up of blackcurrant granita with melting vanilla ice cream and berries

Made with

Sprig Blackcurrant

From the kitchen

Blackcurrant granita sundae

A fork, a freezer and an afternoon. The granita is sharp enough to make vanilla ice cream interesting again.

3 hr 15 min

Medium

A pale spritz with lemon and a spruce tip in morning sun, light breaking into colour

Made with

Sprig Spruce Tip & Lemon

Spritz

Spruce & lemon white spritz

A paler, drier spritz for people who find the orange kind too sweet. It tastes like a walk in a cold forest, with wine.

5 min

Easy

With wine or vermouth

Spritz

Long, cold and a little bitter. Built in the glass, over more ice than seems sensible.

Made with

Sprig Spruce Tip & Lemon

Spritz

Grapefruit & rosemary spritz

Four ingredients, one glass and no shaker. The drink we make when people turn up unannounced.

5 min

Easy

Made with

Sprig Spruce Tip & Lemon

Spritz

Spruce & lemon white spritz

A paler, drier spritz for people who find the orange kind too sweet. It tastes like a walk in a cold forest, with wine.

5 min

Easy

Nothing stronger than lemon

Mocktails

Tall drinks for hot afternoons and early starts. Nobody will ask where the gin is.

A glass of iced chamomile tea with pear in a chamomile meadow, light breaking into colour

Made with

Sprig Chamomile & Pear

Mocktail

Pear & chamomile iced tea

Half tea, half sparkle. Brew it strong, chill it quickly and it will see you through a long afternoon.

15 min

Easy

A glass of crushed ice and mint seen from above in a bed of mint leaves

Made with

Sprig Nettle & Lime

Mocktail

The garden mint cooler

A tall, sharp drink for the hottest week of the year. Ready in the time it takes to find a clean glass.

5 min

Easy

A jug of cucumber, lemon and mint water on a wet garden table at dusk, lit by flash

Made with

Sprig Elderflower & Sea Salt

Mocktail

A jug for the table

Cucumber, lemon, mint and three cans. Put it in the middle of the table and let people help themselves.

10 min

Easy

For the start of an evening

Cocktails

Drinks that ask a little more of you, a shaker and a steady hand, and give it all back.

Made with

Sprig Blackcurrant

Cocktail

Blackcurrant sour

Sharp, purple and a little grown-up. The one recipe here that asks for a shaker, and earns it.

10 min

Medium

Two coupes of rhubarb and rose drink on a white linen cloth in the sun, under the shadow of a rose bush, beside a dish of sugared rhubarb

Made with

Sprig Rhubarb & Rose

Cocktail

Rhubarb & rose coupe

Pink without being silly about it. A short, cold drink for the start of an evening, stirred in a jug.

5 min

Easy

To eat, not to drink

From the kitchen

Things to eat, not to drink: a crisp tempura and a granita to spoon over ice cream.

Made with

Sprig Blackcurrant

From the kitchen

Blackcurrant granita sundae

A fork, a freezer and an afternoon. The granita is sharp enough to make vanilla ice cream interesting again.

3 hr 15 min

Medium

Vegetable tempura and lime halves on white paper, lit by flash

Made with

Sprig Nettle & Lime

From the kitchen

Nettle & lime tempura

Cold bubbles make the lightest batter there is. We use what is left in the can, then open another to drink.

25 min

Medium

Three Sprig cans, a loaf and a bunch of flowers in a paper bag on a stone doorstep in the sun

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