Name: Stairs Cocktail
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Vodka; 30 ml Pear juice (freshly pressed); 30 ml Apple juice (apple cider) unsweetened & cloudy; 7.5 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' 2 sugar to 1 water; 2 Orange bitters

Serve in a

Martini glass

Garnish:

Pear slice

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

2 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 fl oz	Pear juice (freshly pressed)
1 fl oz	Apple juice (apple cider) unsweetened & cloudy
1/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°brix)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
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Review:

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

History:

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

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Nutrition:

One serving of Stairs Cocktail contains 186 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
14.37% alc./vol. (28.74° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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