Cocktail of the week: Bramble

A truly British cocktail and, unusually, one with an undisputed inventor: Dick Bradsell, who died in 2016, was a legend of the British bar scene. It was inspired by the British pastime of brambling, when the blackberry bushes that grow in hedgerows and wasteland come into fruit, before the season ends with the first hard frost.

Bramble

Serves 1

50ml dry gin
25ml lemon juice
10ml sugar syrup
10ml crème de mûre
1 blackberry, to garnish

Shake the gin, lemon juice and syrup with ice, then strain into a tumbler filled with crushed ice. Drizzle the crème de mûre on top and garnish with a blackberry – ideally one that you’ve foraged yourself.

From The Home Bar, by Henry Jeffreys, published by Jacqui Small at £25. To order a copy for £21.25, go to guardianbookshop.com.

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