The Royal Caesar: Fit for a King and Queen (to-be)

This Canada Day long weekend brings more than a four-day work week, traffic-jams on the way to the cottage and extravagant fireworks over the lake. The holiday brings Mott’s Clamato’s annual Coast-to-Coast Caesar Toast and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The Coast-to-Coast Caesar Toast is an annual event that sees the creation of new Caesar recipes in celebration of Canada Day. The six new cocktail recipes for 2011 have been released just in time for the long weekend BBQs. As you may know, the recently married royal couple are embarking on their first official visit to Canada just in time for Canada Day festivities in Ottawa.

As Canada plays host to the royal couple, Mott’s Clamato pays homage to the British Crown in a truly Canadian way —they created the Royal Caesar. Hold on to your fascinators ladies, this is a wild one. 

The Royal Caesar features iconic English flavours including gin and Pimm’s — that’s about as English as spirits can get — and a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce, garnished with a cucumber crown. Don’t let the addition of Worcestershire sauce put you off. The Angostura bitters complements the cool cucumber, and once the Mott’s Clamato is added to the mix, there’s no need to shudder away.

As you relax on this long weekend, forget that pint and mix yourself a tall glass of royalty as you toast to Canada’s 144th birthday.

Royal Caesar:
 
Glass: Champagne

Ingredients:

1 oz Gin

1 oz Pimm's

2 dashes Angostura bitters

3 dashes Freshly ground salt and pepper

4 cucumber sticks (Skinned, 4" long)

4 dashes Worcestershire sauce

4 oz Mott's Clamato Original cocktail

Preparation:

1. Muddle cucumber, Pimm's, gin, bitters, Worcestershire and salt and pepper together in a mixing glass.

2. Add ice and Mott's Clamato Original cocktail.

3. Stir well and strain into fresh ice into a Champagne glass rimmed with freshly ground salt.

Garnish: Cucumber crown


— Gurvinder Kaur