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Applepicker (cocktail)
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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