Cocktail

• 21 Brighten up your Big Lunch with Jubilee gin cocktails
  In recent years, gin has seen a real resurgence in popularity and it's no wonder with it's clean and fresh flavour. The Queen herself is known to enjoy a gin tipple every now and then which makes it the...

• 22 How to drink a sourtoe cocktail
  How to drink a sourtoe cocktail

• 23 Negroni
  Ingredients (makes 1) 30ml gin 30ml sweet vermouth 30ml Campari 1 sliver orange peel Method Fill a rocks glass with ice. Pour the spirits over the top and twist in the orange peel....

• 24 Bloody Mary
  Ingredients 100ml good quality vodka, chilled 300ml good quality tomato juice, chilled Juice of 1/2 a lemon 2 celery sticks Pinch celery salt Pinch sea salt Plenty...

• 25 Kitchen tip: infuse your booze
  You’ve probably sampled a flavoured vodka or spirit at a bar in a fancy cocktail. They’re doing the rounds – a key ingredient for mixologists all over the world. They’re made...

• 26 Cocktail for a King
  The King’s Speech was the big winner at this year's Oscars. The Corinthia Hotel in London has whipped up a tipple fit for a king that The King’s Speech actor Colin Firth alongside other Oscar...

• 27 The King’s Speech cocktail
  Ingredients (makes 1) 30ml fresh raspberry juice from Sundance Partners 20ml Chambord Champagne 3 raspberries sprig of fresh mint Method Pour raspberry juice into the bottom...

• 28 Espresso martini
  Ingredients (makes 1) 1 shot espresso 1 shot vodka ½ shot sugar syrup* Method Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass or espresso cup. *sugar syrup is made by heating equal...

• 29 The Gold Cup Horse’s Neck
  Ingredients 1 strip orange zest, soaked in Hennessy 50ml Hennessy 100ml ginger ale Method Pre-soak a strip of orange zest in Hennessy before you start. Pour the Hennessy into a short...

• 30 Jasmine and elderflower cocktail
  Ingredients 150ml jasmine tea, cold 100ml gin 40ml elderflower cordial 50ml sugar syrup (made by bringing equal quantities of sugar and water to the boil, then cooling) Method Mix...

• 31 Blood orange cosmopolitan
  Ingredients (Makes 4) 160ml good quality vodka, such as Chase 60ml Cointreau or Triple Sec 160ml blood orange juice (freshly squeeze is best) Juice of 1 lime Method Shake all the...

• 32 Eat, drink and be lovely
  Although it may seem the done thing to dine-out on Valentine’s Day, bucking the trend and cooking at home can be as good a show of affection as anything. More so, in fact, given the extra effort...

• 33 New Year's Eve cocktail magic
  What better way to get your New Year’s Eve party off to a cracking start than mixing up some cracking cocktails? Check out these two top tipples from top London cocktail bar Zebrano and have a go...

• 34 Fashion fix: Fab cocktails from LFW
  If you’ve been anywhere around the capital this past week you’ll have noticed crowds of incredibly sharply-dressed, ethereal, tall, slender people wandering round - harking the arrival of this...

• 35 Blackcurrant 75
  Ingredients 50ml blackcurrant infused Beefeater Gin 20ml lemon juice 20ml liquorice syrup (see below, or you could make blackcurrant syrup or use something like Cassis) Top up with...

• 36 Gin-based summer cocktails for an alfresco soiree
  There are few times of year when sitting outside sipping on a long cool drink over ice seem so right. Whether it’s post-work on a Friday night, with friends on a warm Saturday evening or pre-Sunday...

• 37 Gin-based summer cocktails for an alfresco soiree
  There are few times of year when sitting outside sipping on a long cool drink over ice seem so right. Whether it’s post-work on a Friday night, with friends on a warm Saturday evening or pre-Sunday...

• 38 An adult Easter tipple
  Straight from Chelsea’s fashionable Ghost Inc bar, this delicious cocktail is an Easter treat with a naughty side. The clever mixologists at the bar have managed to capture the flavour of a Cadbury’s...

• 39 Top tipple for the New Year
  Usher in the New Year with a bang with this festive cocktail. A closely guarded family secret this recipe is one we've managed to prize it away from its creator to share with you. A punchy alternative...

• 40 hellomagazine.com launches new cuisine channel
  Hellomagazine.com proudly presents its brilliant new cuisine channel. The daily-updated section is jam-packed with tempting morsels, including cuisine-related celebrity news stories, kitchen tips, a fun...