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With a generous spoon of homemade marmalade and fresh lemon juice you can’t go wrong. Classic and inspired recipe. Give it a hearty shake and your guests will love this 💛

This is a lovely drink! On the sweet side but with a savory breakfast it works so well.

Made this with home-made fairly runny orange marmalade. Transformative, updating to Outstanding. The choice of marmalade is, fairly unsurprisingly, the key to this cocktail.

Barspoons are an imprecise measure. British marmalade has a lot of pectin (solid, will heap up). Continental marmalade, jams are much more liquid.

Tip 1: for consistency, use kitchen scales. An individual serve pot, think hotel breakfast buffet, is 30g which works well for us.

Tip 2: it's much easier to muddle marmalade with just a little liquid. Get it dissolved before adding the rest.

We usually make one Breakfast Martini and one English Marmalade and then share. It's what Sundays are for.

Coming to this directly after a White Lady and having recently revisited the outstanding English Marmalade (as linked in the variants)...it sadly disappoints a little. A very good gin sour, but unfortunately the marmalade disappoints a little as a marmalade drink (it's overwhelmed by the orange of the cointreau) and it doesn't do enough to be better than a white lady with the silky texture..so a great drink on its own, but surrounded by even greater expectations.

Really enjoyed this marmelade cocktail. I used a topped bar spoon, thin cut orange marmelade and did NOT double strain - just like Salvatore Calabrese recommended in the video. Maybe a small modification of Difford's recipe would be in place, Simon?

All in all, it worked beautifully with some marmelade settled in the bottom of the martini glass giving structure and extra taste. Extra bonus, no fine straining trouble.

This is nice! Nice breakfast/brunch cocktail option if you want something that's not heavy on the fruit juice. Gin is balanced out by the other ingredients without being too sweet, imo. Nice counterpoint to doughier breakfast foods like pancakes.

For me the marmalade simply refused to dissolve in the gin. So I put orange juice in a pot with some brown sugar and reduced it until fairly thick, but not too thick to mix into the drink. Worked very well, but I’ve never had a decent version of the marmalade version to compare!