GIN ZING

Makes: 6 pops

• 2

• ½

• cups chopped cucumber

• 1 cup elderflower cordial

• ½

• cup gin

Place the cucumber and elderflower cordial in a food processor or blender and blitz until smooth.

Pass the mixture through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl and stir half of the pulp in the sieve back into the cucumber and elderflower juice. Mix in the gin until well combined, then pour into six frozen ice pop molds.

Place the molds in the freezer. Let set for 3 hours, give it a good stir, insert the sticks and allow to freeze solid (about 4 more hours) or leave overnight.

Per pop: 160 calories (10 percent from fat), trace total fat (no saturated fat), no cholesterol, 1 gram carbohydrates, trace protein, 2 milligrams sodium, trace dietary fiber.