We are back from our travels, so time to mix drinks again and remember what proper summer felt like.

Peachtree Punch
From Smuggler’s Cove
Also via Tiki Recipes, compliments to Jeff Selby

1/2 a peach
90ml fresh Orange Juice
15ml fresh Lemon Juice
30ml Cream of Coconut
7.5ml Peach Liqueur
60ml light Rum ( here I consulted the Minimalist Tiki, and went with Plantation 3 Star)
30 ml Soda Water

Add the cubed peach chunks, orange juice, and lemon juice to a drink tin, and muddle, add the remaining ingredients. ( I actually blended everything with a stick blender then strained it)
I then added approximately a cup and a half of crushed ice and a few agitator cubes, (shook the shit out of it as I don’t have a milk shake stand)
Strain poured over fresh crushed ice into a double old fashioned.

Garnish
Fresh grated nutmeg and a peach wedge.

We have been away on a holiday, it was warm where we went. Our first real taste of summer. We aren’t really getting much summer here in downtown Amsterdam just yet. We had a few hot days back in April/May, but then it’s back to normal. Struggling to find the sun, through the clouds and rain.

But! These drinks both use summer fruits. And we can dream it’s still 36°c (97° for the Americans) and that we are sitting under umbrellas trying to escape the sun