As not everyone will be drinking alcohol on New Year’s Eve,
I’m sharing a soft drink recipe. I was
lucky enough to be in Malawi this Summer and we were having lunch at Chez Maky,
which is just outside Blantyre town centre. One of our party ordered a Rock Shandy,
and it brought memories flooding back. I haven’t had one since I was a boy. They
are delicious and refreshing. There are two versions but this is the Malawi
recipe.
Fill a glass with ice and pour in half ginger ale and half
lemonade. Shake in a good dash of Angostura Bitters.
And that’s it – it has an intriguing flavour. It’s supposed
to have originated in Zimbabwe but everyone knows it a Malawi Rock Shandy – I suppose
by the same measure, French Toast probably isn’t French, nor Irish Coffee,
Irish and so on.
In South Africa a Rock Shandy replaces the ginger ale with
soda water so I’d be tempted to add another dash of bitters.
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