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THE APPLEJACK SMASH

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Course Cocktail

Ingredients
  

  • 10 mint leaves
  • 3 ounces Laird Applejack (or any American whiskey or Calvados)
  • ½ ounce lemon juice
  • ½ to 1 ounce simple syrup (the former if you like your cocktail tart)
  • 1 tart American cherry, soaked in simple syrup for a week (or a generic maraschino, as pictured here since the squirrels and chipmunks got all our cherries this year, damn them; I recommend this for appearance and symbolic sake only—I don't recommend eating it)

Instructions
 

  • Smash the mint in a shaker (or for a very minty drink, using a mortar and pestle), then add the Applejack. Ideally, let the mint steep for 30 minutes or so.
  • Add the lemon juice and simple syrup to the shaker. Fill the shaker with ice, and shake hard to further smash to the mint.
  • Pour over ice in a rocks glass (through a strainer if you have one). Garnish with a cherry.