Applepicker (cocktail) Recipe
Invented over the weekend by my friend Eddy. We had gone apple-picking in Peabody Mass, just outside of Boston, and came home with a peck of beautiful fresh fruit.
Since neither of us bakes (pies), the question arose: What should we do with them?
Eddy disappeared into the kitchen for a while. We heard the whirring of a juicer, and then he emerged carrying martini glasses full of beautiful turbid nectar smelling strongly of the orchards...
I know I will be drinking this cocktail every fall for the rest of my life.
Ingredients
- apples, the green-gold-skinned tart kind - 2
- Courvoisier or other cognac
- vanilla-flavored soda water
- bitters
Directions
- Refrigerate the apples until they're cold.
- Juice the apples. We used one of those rotating-rasp juicers that centrifugally separates the juice and the fruit pulp.
- Add 1.5 oz (the big jigger) of juice to each martini glass.
- Add 1.5 oz. cognac to each martini glass.
- Add a small amount of vanilla soda to each glass. Eddy didn't measure this but I would compare it to the amount of champagne used in a drink with a "champagne float".
- Add a few drops of bitters to each glass.
- Drink up!
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Serving | %DV |
|---|---|
| Serving Size 54g | |
| Recipe makes 3 servings | |
| Calories 28 | |
| Calories from Fat 1 | 4% |
| Total Fat 0.09g | 0% |
| Saturated Fat 0.02g | 0% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium 1mg | 0% |
| Potassium 58mg | 2% |
| Total Carbs 7.54g | 2% |
| Dietary Fiber 1.3g | 4% |
| Sugars 5.67g | 4% |
| Protein 0.14g | 0% |
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October 7, 2008FYI: I have it on good authority that you can substitute a splash of Stoli Vanil and a splash of regular soda for the vanilla-flavored soda.
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