Temperley Bramble Sour By Mark Hix

TEMPERLEY BRAMBLE SOUR

There’s still a few blackberries in the bramble bushes or you may well have frozen some for the winter months which are perfect for this autumnal or winter cocktail

MARK HIX

INGREDIENTS

• 90ml Somerset 3yr cider brandy • 40-50ml Burrow Hill apple juice • 30ml Somerset Pomona • 25ml white sugar syrup • The juice of a small lemon • 1 egg white • A few blackberries crushed with the back of a spoon and a whole one to garnish.

Serves 2

DIRECTIONS

1. Put all of the ingredients into a shaker, shake without ice briefly to combine all of ingredients. 2. Then fill the shaker with cubed ice and shake for roughly ten seconds to ensure sufficient chilling and dilution. 3. Strain into a Champagne coupe and garnish with a blackberry.

Spinning the Moon postponed again

DORCHESTER’s seventh community play, Spinning the Moon, has been postponed until spring 2023. The ongoing effects of Covid, as well as other logistical concerns, prompted the managing board of the Dorchester Community Plays Association to delay the production by another 12 months.

Spinning the Moon was due to be performed over Easter 2020, but rehearsals were brought to an abrupt halt by the first lockdown.

There were hopes that the cast of more than 120 performers would be back rehearsing in time to stage the play by spring 2022, but uncertainties still surrounding rising Covid numbers have put the play back another year.

Rowan Seymour, the chairman of DCPA, says: ‘After an exhaustive risk assessment, the DCPA board has made the decision that there is not enough certainty to go ahead with our production of Spinning the Moon in April 2022.

‘Uncertainty about the Covid-19 situation over the coming winter months and other logistical factors have played their part in this thinking. The health and safety of the cast, crew and audience are our major priority.’

The play will be re-launched early in 2022, with a production date of April 2023. Rowan says: ‘Although this is extremely frustrating and disappointing, we will use this time and opportunity to make Spinning the Moon the incredible production I know it will be!’