Enjoying your solitude watching summer sports events?
Make the most of it with an easy-peasy fresh and fruity long cocktail. 
This is such a great time of year for fresh fruit, and chilled melon & soft fruits help tone down the effects of blistering heat while jazzing up a (slightly) boozy beverage.
67's recipe adds rosé wine to melon and cherries and serves it over plentiful ice.
For a change, replace rosé with pink prosecco or champagne, melon with peaches, and cherries with blackberries.
For kids and tee-totallers fizzy water is the way to go but the flavour will be lighter and needs pepping up with something like fresh or dried mint.
Melon Cherry Frosé Cocktail is an easy flavoursome drink guaranted to cool you off.
Cost: £2'ish (7/23)
Makes: 1 long (and slightly heady) drink; multiplies easily
Ingredients:
2/3 cup fresh melon cubes (67 used 1/4 Golden melon, peeled & de-seeded)
generous handful ripe cherries, pits removed (1/4'ish cup; in the absence of a mechanical pit remover, try a paper clip with one side extended or remove flesh with a small sharp knife)
1 generous teaspoon liquid from jar of ginger in syrup
1/4 cup rosé wine
ice cubes
1 tsp fresh or 1/4 tsp dried mint (optional)
Garnish: fresh cherry & cube of melon
Method:
- Blitz melon, cherries, ginger syrup, rosé wine and, if using, mint until smooth and amalgamated. A bit of froth is fine.
- Refrigerate a few hours
- When ready to serve; whisk & pour over ice
- Garnish
Comments:
'A wonderful accompaniment to the Ladies final at Wimbledon! For a group, and if accompanying food, I'd add fizzy water to make it lighter.' Retired writer
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This recipe has been created by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises. It may not be reproduced without the author's written permission
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