{"id":22125,"date":"2016-08-06T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-best-plants-to-flavour-gin-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2016-08-06T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T10:02:09","slug":"the-best-plants-to-flavour-gin-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-best-plants-to-flavour-gin-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"The best plants to flavour gin | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLovely as expensive gin is, says Alys Fowler, you can buy a cheap bottle and flavour it with plants from your garden for half the priceIt has got to this: I\u2019m considering gin and tonic on a Monday morning. It\u2019s Charles\u2019s fault. Charles is a very nice man with whom I wandered around the gardens of the lakes in Italy. He spent his working life in the drinks industry, and pointed out that as lovely as expensive gin is, you could buy a cheap bottle and flavour it yourself for half the price, and end up with something equally good. That was all the encouragement I needed.Traditionally, gin is subtly flavoured with herbs such as cardamom, coriander and juniper, and fruit such as cucumber, lemon and orange peel. Cardamom can be hard to grow, and oranges may be a\u00a0push, but you probably have plenty of other ingredients in your garden that will flavour gin. Continue reading…
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