A nice and summery cocktail:

Ingredients:

• 3 measures gin
• 1 teaspoon sugar syrup
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• A couple of mint sprigs
• chopped ice

Preparation:

Place mint and sugar syrup in an old fashioned glass, and stir them around a bit to bruise the mint. Fill the glass with chopped ice, add lemon juice and gin and stir until the glass is a bit frosty, add mint sprigs for decoration.