Cocktail of the week: Eleanore’s apple highball – recipe

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I adore calvados, and this highball was built disconnected the backmost of a emotion for calvados and tonic. This refreshing aperitif expands connected that thought andfeels truly rather blase successful comparison.

Apple highball

Serves 1

For the pome syrup
250g eating apples, washed – we usage braeburns
250g caster sugar

For the portion
25ml calvados – we usage Avallen
20ml Lillet Blanc
15ml pome syrup (see supra and method)
15ml fresh citrus juice
1 dash orangish bitters – we usage Regans’
1 dash champagne, to taste
1 dash tonic water, to taste
1 twist citrus zest, to finish

First marque the syrup. Dice the apples, core, peel and all, enactment them successful a saucepan, and adhd the sweetener and 100ml water. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring, for astir 10 minutes, until the apples are brushed and the sweetener has dissolved. Fine strain into a cleanable jar, seal and store successful the fridge, wherever the syrup volition support for up to 4 weeks (it’s besides beauteous diluted with sparkling water).

To physique the drink, enactment each the liquids barroom the champagne and tonic into a cocktail tin filled with crystal and springiness it a abbreviated shake. Strain into a tiny chilled highball solid filled with caller crystal and apical with a dash each of champagne and tonic. Give it a speedy stir, compression the citrus zest implicit the top, to explicit the oils (if you like, driblet it into the portion afterwards), and serve.