Name: Evans Shandy Gaff
Ingredients: 1 large piece of ice; 2 bottles ginger ale; 2 glasses claret; seasonal fruit for garnish

Evans Shandy Gaff

Ingredients

1 large piece of ice
2 bottles ginger ale
2 glasses claret
seasonal fruit for garnish

Directions

Place a large piece of ice in a glass pitcher.
Pour in 2 bottles of ginger ale.
Add 2 glasses of claret.
Dress with seasonal fruit and serve.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Ginger ale: Provides the sweet, bubbly base that lightens the wine and adds a gingery aroma.
Claret: Supplies the red wine flavour and colour that gives the drink its body.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.