{"id":2866,"slug":"rosemary-and-citrus-cordial","title":"Rosemary and Citrus Cordial","description":"This recipe for rosemary and citrus cordial is adapted from page 26 of the April 2023 edition of Tesco's magazine.","ingredients_raw":["1 red grapefruit, scrubbed","3 lemons, scrubbed","¼ cup (20 g/0.7 oz) rosemary","6 cm piece ginger, sliced thinly","⅔ cup (150 g) superfine sugar","1 cup (250 ml/8.5 fl oz) water","Fizzy water (optional)","Whiskey (optional)"],"ingredients_norm":["red grapefruit","lemon","rosemary","ginger","superfine sugar","water","fizzy water","whiskey"],"steps":["Using a peeler, remove long strips of peel from grapefruit and 2 of lemons. Be careful not to remove any of white pith.","Put the peels into a saucepan. Juice the lemons and grapefruit, and add the juice to the pan.","Using a rolling pin, roll over the rosemary sprigs a few times on a chopping board to release the oils.","Add the rosemary to the pan with ginger, sugar, and water.","Heat for 5 minutes over a low-medium heat, stirring occasionally, to dissolve the sugar.","Reduce the heat to low and cook for 15 minutes until you get a slightly thick syrup. Leave it to cool, then use immediately or chill overnight to develop the flavors.","Strain the cordial syrup through a sieve into a bowl or jug. Transfer to a bottle.","To use, mix 1–2 tablespoons of cordial into ⅔ cup (160 ml) of fizzy water to make a soda, or add to boiling water with 2 tablespoons of whiskey to make a hot toddy."],"categories":["Beverage recipes","Recipes for beverages","Recipes using lemon","Recipes using grapefruit","Recipes using superfine sugar","Recipes using carbonated water","Recipes using fresh ginger"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":30,"servings":"20","yield_text":"2 cups (500 ml)","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Rosemary_and_Citrus_Cordial","source_ref":"4510647","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Rosemary_and_Citrus_Cordial&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"9223591d98894e173c833d791ad17159f4edae38469dd012963668e4d2f6b88b","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:18Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:18Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/rosemary-and-citrus-cordial"}