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Cocktail recipe

Pimm’s Cup

A built cocktail featuring Pimm’s #1, Lemon soda, Cucumber.

Pimm’s Cup cocktail

Ingredients

  • 60 ml Pimm’s #1
  • 6 oz Lemon soda
  • 4 piece Cucumber
  • 4 piece Lemon
  • 4 piece Strawberry

Method

  1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
  2. Add the Pimm’s and other still ingredients, then the sparkling mixer.
  3. Add the listed fruit and cucumber, and stir gently to distribute them through the drink.
  4. Optional garnish: mint sprig.

Story

James Pimm sold his gin-based 'No. 1 Cup' at his London oyster bar in the 1840s as a digestive tonic. It is now the drink of Wimbledon, where hundreds of thousands of glasses are poured each fortnight.