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Don't know if anybody has already posted this (if they have Mods then feel free to move it) but I thought that as the weather this year isn't too bad (compared with last year anyway) people might want to sit outside and sip Pimms. The trouble is it is very expensive for what it is so here's a couple of amateur 'near misses' that work out cheaper. Even the one with Curacao works out less measure for measure. You just end up with loads more of it 
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So.
1 bottle supermarkets' own brand gin.
1 bottle of cheap Italian RED vermouth.
.5 bottle of curacao or decent orange liqueur.
If you want to save a bit you can substitute the orange liqueur with a bottle of cheap sweet or medium sherry which makes even more but does lack just a little of the zing.
Serve 1 measure to 3 or to taste with lemonade and of course you can put what you like into it, apple, lemon, cucumber, mint etc. Personally I make ice cubes with torn up borage leaves and (later on) flowers frozen in at this time of year plus a slice of lemon. But if you haven't got borage (call yourself a gardener?
) then cucumber will do.
.So.
1 bottle supermarkets' own brand gin.
1 bottle of cheap Italian RED vermouth.
.5 bottle of curacao or decent orange liqueur.
If you want to save a bit you can substitute the orange liqueur with a bottle of cheap sweet or medium sherry which makes even more but does lack just a little of the zing.
Serve 1 measure to 3 or to taste with lemonade and of course you can put what you like into it, apple, lemon, cucumber, mint etc. Personally I make ice cubes with torn up borage leaves and (later on) flowers frozen in at this time of year plus a slice of lemon. But if you haven't got borage (call yourself a gardener?
) then cucumber will do.
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