27.01.2020
The first ArchichefNight event in 2020 passed by, and we are proud for Jestico + Whiles team becoming finalists of this competition.
The theme of the night was ‘Cocktail’. Aurelien Thomas, Studio Associate, and Sam Buckley, Architectural Assistant, invented a Through the Looking Glass cocktail, inspired by our favourite ‘Alice in Wonderland’ book.
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS
EAT ME
Ingredients for 10 jellies:
— 70 ml lapsong suchong tea, infused with ginger and lemon
— 30 ml gin
— 1g agar agar powder
Method:
Boil the tea with the agar agar powder in a saucepan for 2 minutes.
Wait 5 minutes for the tea to cool off and add the gin.
Place the tea in an ice cube tray and let it sit at room temperature until the jellies solidify.
DRINK ME
Ingredients:
— 150 g caster sugar
— 25 g of basil
— Rhubarb
— Soda water
— Gin
— Ice
— Butterfly pea flower extract
— Honey
— Lime
Method:
Rhubarb and basil soda
Dissolve the sugar in 150ml water over a low heat.
Leave to cool, add the rhubarb to infuse for 24 hours in the fridge.
Filter the syrup and store in a 1 litre bottle.
1 hour before serving, add the basil – tied up with cooking twine for easy removal from the bottle – and top-up the bottle with soda water.
Pour in a glass, in this order and without mixing the layers together: 1 tbsp of honey, 3 measures of gin and 5 measures of soda. Squeeze 1/2 tsp of lime juice and top up with some crushed ice mixed with butterfly pea flower extract.
Serve with a Lapsong Suchong tea jelly and a teaspoon of popping candy on the side.
Recipe developed by Sam Buckley and Aurelien Thomas from Jestico + Whiles, with Andrei Codrin Acsinia and Razvan Buescu from the Gentlemen Barristas.
Many thanks to Towent for organising the event.