Cucumber-Lavender Gin Fizz

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup water 2 tablespoons dried lavender
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 tablespoons dried lavender

  culinary grade
• 1 cucumber

  peeled and roughly sliced
• Splash of water
• 2 ounces cucumber juice
• 2 ounces London dry gin
• 1 ounce lavender simple syrup
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 egg white
• Ice
• Splash of chilled club soda
• Lemon twist

  for garnish, optional
• Cucumber slice

  for garnish, optional

Instructions

• 1 In a small saucepan, combine water, sugar and lavender. Over medium-high heat,
  bring to a simmer. Frequently stir to help dissolve sugar. Once the mixture
  simmers and the sugar dissolves, turn off heat, allow the lavender to steep for
  at least 30 minutes and strain.
• 2 Place cucumber slices and water in a blender and process until smooth. Place a
  bowl under a cheese cloth- or paper towel-lined fine-mesh sieve and pour the
  cucumber puree into the sieve. You will use the juice that drips into the bowl.
  Alternatively, you can use a juicer.
• 3 In a cocktail shaker, add the cucumber juice, gin, lavender simple syrup, egg
  white and lemon juice. Shake for 30 seconds. Add a handful of ice and shake
  vigorously until you no longer hear the ice clink against the cocktail shaker.
• 4 Pour into a chilled Collins glass and top with club soda. Garnish with a lemon
  twist and additional cucumber slices if desired. Enjoy!

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