Would you like a biscuit with your Cornish cocktail?

The Fair Play cocktail was created by head bartender Dom Shorthall at St Michaels Resort in Falmouth, just down the road from Loveday Distillery.

The cocktail, inspired by Cornwall’s abundance of produce and its trading history with Spain, blends Loveday Organic Spiced Rum with Spanish sherry and Cornish vermouth.

It is a nod to centuries of maritime exchange at Falmouth’s harbour, where sweet Spanish wines and warming spices once flowed and are now used to create Cornwall’s own rum.

Loveday Distillery will be releasing 700ml bottles of its Loveday Organic Spiced Rum on 17 July. 

Ingredients

To make the infusion

• 30ml Pedro Ximenez sherry and Knightor Rosso vermouth (blend one part sherry to two parts vermouth)
• Dried ginger
• Cinnamon
• Allspice (spices to taste)
• 1 Cornish Fairings biscuit

To make the cocktail

• 1 measure sherry and vermouth infusion
• 50ml Loveday Organic Spiced Rum 
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 of an egg white

To garnish

• 1 Cornish Fairings biscuit

Method

To make the infusion, combine the vermouth and sherry in a sous vide bag, with the dried ginger, cinnamon, allspice and the Cornish Fairings biscuit. Heat for two hours at 65.8ºC and then strain. 

Pour all the remaining ingredients into a mixing glass. Dry shake then wet shake with one large ice cube.

Fine strain into a chilled glass over ice. Garnish with the Cornish Fairings biscuit.