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THE APPLEJACK SMASH

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Course: Cocktail
Ingredients Method

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)

Method
 

  1. 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.
  2. Add the lemon juice and simple syrup to the shaker. Fill the shaker with ice, and shake hard to further smash to the mint.
  3. Pour over ice in a rocks glass (through a strainer if you have one). Garnish with a cherry.