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Sour Cherry Bourbon

Bourbon Cocktail Recipe

Brightened with cherries and spiked with bourbon, this rouged whiskey sour is good company while working the grill. Try out this fruity whiskey twist tonight.

Ingredients


Serves 4

  • 8 oz. bourbon
  • 
3 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice

  • 3 oz. syrup from preserved sour cherries
  • 1 oz. simple syrup
  • Ice

  • Preserved sour cherries and orange twists (for garnish)

Directions

To make simple syrup, boil equal parts sugar and water until sugar dissolves.

  1. In a 500-mL measuring cup, combine bourbon, lemon juice and syrups. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Pour in half of bourbon mixture. Shake 20 times. Strain into 2 (8-oz.) rocks glasses filled with ice.
  2. Dump ice from cocktail shaker and repeat process with remaining bourbon mix. Garnish with sour cherries and orange twists.

Source

House & Home August 2012 Issue

  • Photographer Stacy Brandford
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