Recipe: alcohol-free Happy Toi cocktail

From an Old Fashioned to a Margarita and from a Passionfruit Fix to a Paloma. Tess Posthumus’s Cocktail Bible is packed with more than 200 cocktail recipes, with and without alcohol, such as this Happy Toi cocktail with Crodino and home-made bay leaf and sage syrup. The bible is divided into the different flavors of cocktails, such as fresh, floral, sour and spicy. This way, you can immediately make the cocktail you feel like having at that moment. 

How to make the alcohol-free Happy Toi cocktail

• Fill the rocks glass with ice cubes.
• Pour in the lemon juice and bay leaf & sage syrup.
• Top up with the Crodino.
• Stir everything briefly and garnish with fresh sage.

How to make the bay leaf and sage syrup

• Break the bay leaf into pieces and put it in a pan together with the sage.
• Add the sugar and water to the contents of the pan. Heat over medium-high heat. Do not let it boil, as the sugar will caramelize and you will get a different flavor.
• Stir everything well until the sugar has completely dissolved. Let the syrup cool.
• Pour it through a fine sieve to remove the herbs and any undissolved sugar crystals.
• Store the syrup in a clean, sealed glass bottle in the refrigerator for up to
  3 months.

Title: Cocktail Bible
Author: Tess Posthumus
Price: €34,99
Publisher: Carrera Culinair

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