Spiced Pear Flip
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Let’s talk about the apple martini. Google the recipe and you’ll find some bright green combination of vodka and apple schnapps. I envisioned a grown-up version with layers of fresh, fall flavor that looked like a Manhattan. As luck would have it, it came to me while happily strolling the streets of Copenhagen, biting into an apple I just bought at the local market.
Ingredients
SERVINGS: 1 Cocktail
- 2 ounces calvados or apple brandy
- 3/4 ounce Fuji apple shrub*
- 1/2 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
- 4 dashes Fee Brothers Black Walnut bitters
Preparation
1. Prepare *Fuji apple shrub by adding two chopped Fuji apples and 1 cup sugar to jar with tight fitting lid. Shake and place in fridge overnight. Strain out solids. Add 1 ½ cups apple cider vinegar and shake to combine. Continue to shake in 15 minute intervals until sugar is dissolved. Store in fridge.
2. Combine all cocktail ingredients in a shaker. Add ice. Shake and strain into coup or martini glass.
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