Sumptuous drinks to serve in your garden

It’s finally time. After long months walking in the park and pounding coffees in the street you can have a small number of pals over as long as they stay in the garden. Will you have a few drinks when then come by? For the first time in months? Just a couple…? Yes, you absolutely will. Here are some of the best things to serve while you to remember how to have a conversation with more than two people. There are a few cocktails among the bottles and cans but they’re kept pretty straightforward to make sure you’ve got plenty of time for overdue chat.

Gin/Whiskey Smash

A laidback relation of the julep and the cobbler, the smash is one of the original cocktails, traceable to the mid-19^th century. It’s an excellent garden drink because it doesn’t require you to be especially precise and is pretty dependably good. Just throw all the components in a large shaker with a couple of handfuls of ice and whip them about until your arms get tired.