{"id":14959,"date":"2025-12-13T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14959"},"modified":"2025-12-13T05:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T05:44:02","slug":"friday-cocktail-on-saturday-elderflower-gin-and-tonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14959","title":{"rendered":"Friday cocktail on Saturday- Elderflower Gin and Tonic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elderflower liqueur is a sweet, floral liqueur which is available everywhere. There are many, many recipes for this &#8211; including substituting sparkling wine for tonic. Here&#8217;s a 25 second video with one recipe and Farandaville recipe is below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elderflower Lemon Gin+Tonic Recipe\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TqOWQYVOvQY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Farandaville <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 oz dry gin (or 1 1\/2 oz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1\/2 oz Elderflower (or 1\/4 oz; or 3\/4 oz!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1\/4 oz lemon juice (or lime&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pour over ice in glass of your choice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add 3-4 oz tonic. You may want to put this in first and then add the other ingredients <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gently stir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try different variations to suit your own palate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Elderflower Liqueur looks like &#8211; St. Germaine is the most popular and easily available variety. And it can be used in many different cocktails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/elderflower-bottle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14960\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elderflower liqueur is a sweet, floral liqueur which is available everywhere. There are many, many recipes for this &#8211; including substituting sparkling wine for tonic. Here&#8217;s a 25 second video with one recipe and Farandaville recipe is below. Farandaville 2 oz dry gin (or 1 1\/2 oz) 1\/2 oz Elderflower (or 1\/4 oz; or 3\/4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14961,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959\/revisions\/14961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}