Cocktails with Peach-strawberry cordial
Peach-strawberry cordial is a sweet, non-alcoholic fruit concentrate of peach and strawberry, sugar and water, diluted or dosed to add fruit flavour and sweetness.
Taste profile
Ripe peach and strawberry aroma leads, over a high, syrupy sweetness with only faint acidity and no bitterness.
How it's used
Poured as a sweetening-and-flavouring element, it brings both sugar and fruit aroma in one measure; a small pour accents other fruit, while a larger dose makes the peach-strawberry character the point. Its syrupy body integrates when shaken or stirred with the build.
Substitutes for Peach-strawberry cordial
Its sweetness and syrupy body can be rebuilt with a plain sugar syrup adjusted for concentration, but the defining peach-and-strawberry aroma cannot — only another genuine peach-and-strawberry fruit preparation preserves it, and no plain syrup will do when a drink is built around that specific fruit combination.
Often confused with
Liqueur (US 'cordial')
This fruit cordial is a non-alcoholic sweet fruit concentrate used as a sweetener; in American usage 'cordial' commonly means a sweetened distilled spirit (a liqueur), which is alcoholic and acts as a base or modifier rather than a sweetening element.
