#APPLEJACK RABBIT HOW TO#

Learn how to make Jack Rabbit Cocktail at home. Keenan's Klassics: It's a Shane Black Christmas Jack Rabbit Cocktail: maple syrup, orange juice, ice, applejack, lemon juice.Miscellaneous: Noir, Poetry, Noir Poetry.Applejack Rabbit was first featured in Here's How, a cocktail book from 1927 written by Judge Jr. It is usually garnished with a lemon twist. The ingredients are shaken with ice, and the combination is then strained into a coupe glass. Cocktail of the Week: That Bubbly Burden Applejack Rabbit is an American cocktail that combines apple brandy, lemon juice, orange juice, and maple syrup.In a cocktail shaker, add ice, applejack, orange liqueur, and lemon juice. With the sugar on a saucer, dip either half or the entire rim of the glass in the sugar to coat.

Want more Cocktail of the Week? The first fifty-two essays are available in the Kindle bestseller DOWN THE HATCH: ONE MAN’S ONE YEAR ODYSSEY THROUGH CLASSIC COCKTAIL RECIPES AND LORE. To prepare rim, rub the rim of the martini glass or coupe with the lemon wedge. This bright, tart, and delicious classic cocktail first appeared in Judge Jr.s Heres How little cocktail book in 1927. My holiday newsletter will be a little late this year. Enjoy one anytime this season, while chestnuts roast on an open fire, or you draft the litany of half-truths that constitutes your holiday newsletter, or you search feverishly for the Allen wrench that’s supposed to be in the box. Not that you should limit this cocktail to sprawling midday repasts. The Jack Rabbit practically demands to be served at brunch maple and apple pair as wonderfully in the glass as they do on the breakfast plate, with the zing of lemon an added bonus. The recipe below comes courtesy of Erik Hakkinen of the Zig Zag Café. I do eat a lot of pancakes, though, so what I had on hand was Grade A dark amber syrup – think of it as the highest level of the maple minor leagues – and that served me in good stead. He specifically recommends Grade B maple syrup, the darker, thicker variety with a more intense flavor that makes it superior in cooking and baking. SOUTHERN TWIST ON THE CLASSIC APPLEJACK RABBIT SERVED ON THE ROCKS CLYDE MAYES FRESH ORANGE JUICE FRESH LEMON JUICE MAPLE SYRUP. Jim Meehan helped restore the Rabbit’s glory (as well as its longer name) by including it in The PDT Cocktail Book. He deemed it “not half bad” and also noted that the drink is sometimes known as the Applejack Dynamite “for no reason at all.” Perhaps because it’s better than not half bad. Embury, in The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks (1948), offered a spirit-forward version. Tastes and syrups were obviously different then, but this is a ratio right out of Super Troopers.

Early recipes called for equal parts maple syrup and apple brandy, astonishingly “one hooker” or approximately two and a half ounces of each. The Jack Rabbit, originally known as the Applejack Rabbit, turns up in 1927’s Here’s How! by the pseudonymous “Judge Jr.” Much of that guide was cannibalized by Harry Craddock for his Savoy Cocktail Book three years later.

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