Name: Stairs Cocktail
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Vodka; 30 ml Pear juice; 30 ml Apple juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Orange bitters

Stairs Cocktail
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 oz	Pear juice (freshly pressed)
1 oz	Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
Prepare garnish of a pear wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with pear wedge on rim.

Review:

In London's cockney rhyming slang 'apples and pears' means stairs. Thus, this tasty cocktail is appropriately named.

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History:

Created in 2000 by Ian Baldwin at the GE Club, London, England

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Nutrition:

One serving of Stairs Cocktail contains 185 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
13.11% alc./vol. (13.11° proof)
17.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Laurent Van muysewinkel

5th January at 14:32

Un très bon cocktail très frais & agréable... J'ai simplement utiliser un jus de pomme/poire artisanal(comme beaucoup en Belgique) plutôt que pomme et poire séparer, j'ai également agrémenter ce doux cocktail de 1,5 cl de liqueur poire/cognac( Noces Royales... un délice juteux)

David Hoyle

7th April 2024 at 18:46

I have tried this three times. One time trying 25% of the vodka as vanilla as someone proposed - to me that did not work and the vanilla took over. One time as per recipe. Beautiful. One time without orange bitters. Very clean, the apple/pear flavours shining through. Also impressive.

Dean Lubaki

20th November 2023 at 00:30

I found that substituting some of the vodka for some absolut vanilla vodka added a nice flavour to it

Sally Morgan

25th October 2020 at 20:56

You’ll need to juice pears freshly for this (and whilst you’re there you may as well juice apples as well) so it’s probably just as well someone bought you a juicer with the fond hope you will life of kale smoothies. Mix the lemon juice in straight away to stop the other juices browning.

Delicious autumn cocktail that I’m sure is just as good for you as a kale smoothie.

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