Recipe

• 25ml tequila blanco

• 25ml golden rum

• 5ml maraschino

• 5ml strawberry vodka

• 5ml orange bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.

I felt like making up a cocktail, and I decided to base it on the Sir Walter, swapping brandy for tequila and mixing up the extra ingredients too. I looked up the Spanish (or Mexican) version of the name Walter, and apparently it's Gutierre, so I picked that as the name. Better still, it turns out that Gutierre de Cetina was a Spanish contemporary of Sir Walter Raleigh, and he made the crossing to Mexico as a soldier-poet. Maybe the drink is named in his honour.

It had a good taste, a bit like a twisted funny version of the Sir Walter. The rum and tequila went well together, though a darker tequila might have been even better.

The strawberry vodka was home-made: I had a pot of strawberry rock that had all stuck together and I was about to throw it out, so I added vodka instead and it made a nice liqueur. Also pictured: a model Roman warship built by Claire. Let no one say that wasn't a good present.