My So-Called Life

thisisrealness:

Loving all the little touches people are applying to get in the spirit of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee… these are all within 100yds of the studio…

utterlyresplendent:

I love the Royals, whatever people may say.

royalwatcher:

Jubilee Cocktail by Joel Autune 

Queen Elizabeth II adores Dubonnet. The fortified wine with herbs and quinine was invented in 1846, the result of a competition by the French Government to find a way of encouraging French Legionnaires to drink bitter quinine by disguising it in alcohol.  

Meant as a punchy cure for malaria, it fast became the upper classes’ aperitif of choice.  

The Queen Mother drank it every day - mixed three parts Dubonnet, seven parts gin, with a twist of lemon - and was even known to take a small bottle with her on journeys, ‘just in case.’ The Queen inherited her passion and enjoys a Dubonnet and gin every day before lunch, and reportedly one before bed too.

ROYAL PIMM’S PUNCH

Serves 6 -8

Ingredients

• 100ml Tanqueray Gin
• 100ml Dubonnet
• 200ml Pimm’s No1
• 50ml Crème de Fraise des Bois
• 50ml Crème de Cassis
• 50ml Triple Sec
• 50ml Lemon juice
• 100ml Strong English tea
• 600ml Lemonade Selection of quintessential British fruits (apples, pears, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, cherries) as well as orange and lemon wheels 

Method 

Build all ingredients into a punch bowl, add ice block (smaller cubes will melt) to chill and float chopped fruits. 

DIAMOND DUBONNET

Instruction 

• 25ml Tanqueray gin
• 50ml Dubonnet
• 2 drops Orange bitters  
• Top sparkling English wine or champagne Garnish: Edible diamonds (available via internet)   

Method 

Shake gin, Dubonnet and orange bitters together and then double strain into glass. Top with sparkling English wine or champagne and drop a handful of edible diamonds into the flute

LONG COMMONWEALTH ICED TEA

Ingredients 

• 15ml Cîroc vodka infused with Earl Grey Tea (take a bottle of Cîroc and add packet of loose leaf Earl Grey tea. Strain out leaves)
• 15ml Gosling’s Black Seal Bermuda Rum
• 10ml Tanqueray Gin
• 10ml Triple Sec
• 25ml Lemon juice
• 10ml sugar syrup
• 2 drops Orange bitters
• 25ml Dubonnet
• Top with Tonic water  

Method 

Shake the vodka, rum, gin, Triple Sec, lemon juice, sugar and bitters together, double strain over ice. Add your Dubonnet and top with tonic water. Serve in a crystal highball with Jubilee straws.

CROWNED 60 

Ingredients 

• 50ml Dubonnet
• 5ml Solera Sherry
• 5ml Cherry Heering liqueur
• 15ml Egg white
• 2 small bar spoons of caster sugar
• 10ml Lime juice
• 2 dash Cherry bitters (available on the internet or at specialist off licences)
• Garnish: Fresh cherry 

Method 

Shake all ingredients together hard and double strain into a Coupette glass then drop in the cherry. 

Drink Responsibly.

megansoto:

Keep calm, and have a Diamond Jubilee. 

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louniverse:

London is being very Londony at the moment

bowtiesarecoolll:

Two very incredible ladies, born just over a month apart.

This weekend is special to them both - Marilyn would have turned 86 today and Elizabeth celebrates her Diamond Jubilee over this week.

<3

tidingsandthings:

We were trying to imagine what London Looked like in 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne, here are some images we found to give us an idea:

Post box, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, London, 1952

Michelin Van collecting tyre casings for retreading

One of the last London trams in Westminster Bridge Road

The Night Scotsman

St Pauls, London - 1952

Thames Beach, 1952

brbafonso:

queen’s diamonds jubilee weekend!!

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annelisexo:

Union Jack battenberg cake - bloody marvelous! Recipe here

annelisexo:

Union Jack Jubilee cake - recipe here!

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