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  • 1 cucumber
    ends trimmed
  • ½ bottle white wine
  • 200ml elderflower cordial
  • few mint
    sprigs, leaves picked
  • 2 x bottles soda water
    chilled

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal122
  • fat0g
  • saturates0g
  • carbs21g
  • sugars21g
  • fibre0g
  • protein1g
  • salt0.19g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Chop the cucumber into a few chunks, then put in a blender or food processor with the wine and elderflower cordial. Whizz until well blended, then pour through a sieve set over a large bowl or jug. Tip the contents of the sieve back into the machine, whizz again until pulpy, then sieve again into the liquid already collected. Add 1-2 tbsp of the cucumber pulp from the sieve into the liquid and discard the rest. Chill until ready to serve.

  • step 2

    To serve, fill glasses with a few ice cubes and some mint leaves. Pour in enough cucumber base to come halfway up the glass, then top up with soda water.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2010

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A star rating of 4.8 out of 5.4 ratings
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Bewitched40

This is a great drink for the evening!!!!

cookiemonster799

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

This is refreshing and totally delicious, perfect for a BBQ!

09twinklestar

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

We did this for a royal wedding party and it was a huge hit. So much so that we ran out of cucumber much to everyone's disappointment. Would definitely make again.

dwynwyn

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Yum Yum, it was lovely.

lynnhawkings

A star rating of 4 out of 5.

it was a lovely warm summer evening here in france, and as we have a glut of cucumbers at present decided to try this out on some friends who were coming for dinner - it was perfect!! Followed the recipe - apart from adding a little of our own homemade elderflower champagne instead of some of the…

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