Christmas recipe: anyone for a mince pie cocktail? After noting consumers" increased appetite for mince pies during autumn (customers have already purchased more than 8 million mince pies from Sainsbury's since this September), the retailer decided the capitialise on customers' love for both Christmas culinary delights and stiff drinks by teaming up with the London Cocktail Club's drinks connosieur, JJ Goodman. Together, they've created the Mincemeat Irish, bringing the best bits of both the seasonal grocery and drinks aisles - Irish Cream Liqueur, cognac, milk, traditional mincemeat and the classic Christmas flavour of a clementine. It's a fantastic, fun way to entertain friends and a great way of ensuring you don't end up with a half empty jar of mincemeat in the cupboard at the end of Christmas. Given that we've sold more than 8 million mince pies from September to November, we anticipate The Mincemeat Irish will become one of this year's hottest festive drinks around. With mincemeat cocktails, brussels sprouts juice and Christmas cake liqueur, already on the agenda, we're patiently awaiting the arrival of some turkey flavoured tequila shots this Christmas. The Mincemeat Irish Ingredients 50ml Sainsbury's Irish Cream 25ml Sainsbury's Cognac 2 teaspoons of Sainsbury's fruit mincemeat 25ml whole milk Clementine, whole Method Apart from the clementine, add all of the ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for ten seconds to allow for some of the dilution and to properly chill the drink. Then strain the cocktail into a martini glass or a short glass filled with cubed ice. Take a clementine or orange and a potato peeler, zest a strip of peel 3cm wide and 6cm or so long. Twist the peel over the glass orange side down to spray the oils over the drink, which will give you an amazing smell as you sip.