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Recipes, ratios and pump counts for coffee, cocktails and mocktails

How do you make a strawberry daiquiri?
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How do you make a piña colada with coconut syrup?
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How do you make a mojito, and can you use mint syrup?
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How do you make a Bellini with peach syrup?
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How do you make an espresso martini (plus a caramel version)?
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What are the easiest mocktails to make at home?
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How do you make an amaretto sour, and what's the syrup ratio?
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What are the best Christmas cocktails to make at home?
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How do you make a margarita (and a mango or watermelon version)?
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How do you make a gimlet, and how much lime syrup goes in?
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For a shaken strawberry daiquiri, use 60ml of white rum, 22.5ml of lime juice and 15ml of strawberry syrup. For a frozen one, blend 60ml of rum, 25ml of lime juice and 25ml of strawberry syrup with 1.5 cups of...
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Blend 50ml of white rum, 60ml of pineapple juice, 30ml of coconut cream and 20ml of coconut syrup with a cup of ice until smooth. The syrup gives you the coconut flavour and the sugar, and the coconut cream gives...
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A mojito is 50ml of white rum, 25ml of fresh lime juice, 15ml of mint syrup and 6 mint leaves, built over crushed ice and topped with soda water. Yes, you can use mint syrup. It replaces the sugar and...
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Pour 15 to 20ml of peach syrup into a chilled flute, then top with about 120ml of prosecco. The amount depends on how sweet your prosecco is. Brut needs the most syrup and Dry needs the least. Peach syrup amount...
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How do you make an espresso martini (plus a caramel version)? An espresso martini is 50ml of vodka, 30ml of coffee liqueur, one strong shot of espresso and 10ml of sugar syrup, shaken hard with ice and double strained. For...
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The easiest mocktail is 15 to 20ml of syrup, a squeeze of citrus and 150ml of soda water over ice. It takes two minutes and needs no shaker. As a rule, use 1 part syrup to 7 to 10 parts...
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The ratio is about 45ml of spirit, 25ml of lemon juice and 20ml of amaretto syrup. That is close to the standard sour formula of 2 parts spirit, 1 part lemon and 1 part sweet. Add an egg white if...
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The easiest Christmas cocktails use one spirit, one Solano's syrup and one top-up. Five that work are a gingerbread espresso martini, a roasted marshmallow white Russian, a bun spice and ginger beer, a grenadine prosecco spritz and a caramelised biscuit...
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A classic margarita is 50ml of 100% agave tequila, 20ml of triple sec and 15ml of fresh lime juice, shaken with ice. For a mango or watermelon version, keep the tequila and lime and swap the sugar and orange liqueur...
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A gimlet is 60ml of gin, 20ml of fresh lime juice and 15ml of lime syrup, shaken hard with ice and strained into a chilled glass. That is a pump and a half of Solano's 10ml syrup pump. If you...
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