Yes, yes, non-alcoholic. I can’t drink all the time you know.

After serving martinis, you might, as I do, find your fridge to be full of bald lemons, shaved of their peel but still bursting with juice. You can use them for all sorts of things, like cooking, putting them in hot water to drink in the morning, making ice cubes, or, as I have done today, juicing them and adding them to a cordial drink to make a refreshing, sweet and sour non-alcoholic beverage.

Rooh Afza is a sweet, rose-flavoured syrupy cordial to dilute with water and drink, preferably on a hot day. It comes from Pakistan, a country I have never visited but where some of my family used to live (before partition in the old days of the British Raj).

To counteract it’s strong sweetness I added the juice of a lemon to 35ml and a dash of balsamic vinegar. Stir well then place in the freezer for around 45 minutes. Pour into a chilled martini glass and top up with chilled tonic water. Garnish with a piece of lemon peel.

You can also leave it in the freezer a little bit longer in individual shot glasses to make a miniature sorbet.

There you go, a non-alcoholic post on my otherwise gin-soaked blog. Pakistan Zindabad!