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Applepicker (cocktail) Recipe
by Chris Patil

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.

Rating: 5/5
Avg. 5/5 1 vote
Prep time: United States American
  Servings: 3

Goes Well With: another cocktail

Ingredients

  • apples, the green-gold-skinned tart kind - 2
  • Courvoisier or other cognac
  • vanilla-flavored soda water
  • bitters

Directions

  1. Refrigerate the apples until they're cold.
  2. Juice the apples. We used one of those rotating-rasp juicers that centrifugally separates the juice and the fruit pulp.
  3. Add 1.5 oz (the big jigger) of juice to each martini glass.
  4. Add 1.5 oz. cognac to each martini glass.
  5. 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".
  6. Add a few drops of bitters to each glass.
  7. Drink up!