Cocktails with Eucalyptus cordial
Eucalyptus cordial is a sweetened, non-alcoholic syrup flavoured with eucalyptus, diluted before drinking or used as a flavouring in mixed drinks.
Taste profile
Eucalyptus dominates — a cool, camphoraceous, resinous note over a plainly sweet body.
How it's used
Reached for when a drink needs a cool eucalyptus accent, it is added as a syrup that both sweetens and flavours; used undiluted it contributes markedly more sweetness and body than a ready-to-drink product, so it is dosed in small measures.
Substitutes for Eucalyptus cordial
Its generic sweetness can be matched by any plain sugar syrup, but the eucalyptus aroma cannot be rebuilt from an unrelated sweetener; where the cordial defines the drink, only another eucalyptus-flavoured product will do.
Description
Built on a base of sugar and water, it forms a concentrated syrup carrying eucalyptus flavour, sold ready to dilute at the point of use.
Storage
Being a sugar syrup, it keeps refrigerated once opened; discard if cloudiness or off-aromas develop.
