Cucumber Cape Codder

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 2 cups english cucumbers, scraped and grated (about 1 cucumber)
• 9 ounces vodka, chilled
• 2 ounces cranberry juice (no sugar added)
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice (from about 4 limes)
• ice, for serving

Recipe

• 1 to make the simple syrup, bring sugar and water to a boil in a small pot. reduce heat and simmer, stirring until sugar dissolves. remove from heat, stir in grated cucumber and let cool. pour through a fine sieve into a bowl or large glass measuring cup and discard solids (you should have 2 cups syrup). the cucumber syrup can be refrigerated up to 3 days.
• 2 combine cucumber syrup, vodka, cranberry juice and lime juice in a 2-quart pitcher.
• 3 cocktail can be refrigerated up to 8 hours. serve over ice and garnish with cucumber wedges.