Name: Turnpike
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 20 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 15 ml Applejack brandy; 15 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 5 ml Chilled water; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Turnpike
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
²⁄₃ oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
¹⁄₂ oz	Applejack brandy
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₆ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This recipe is a third of the volume of the original, with the optional additional water only compensating for my use of rich 2:1 sugar syrup (in place of simple syrup).

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Variant:

Harvest Sour

History:

Adapted from a recipe created circa 2007 by Joseph Schwartz at Milk & Honey in New York City.

Joseph's original recipe called for Old Overholt Rye Whiskey from Pennsylvania and Laird's Applejack from New Jersey, so appropriately, this cocktail is named after the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) connecting these two states with New York.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Turnpike contains 115 calories

Alcohol content:

0.8 standard drinks
18.11% alc./vol. (18.11° proof)
11.8 grams of pure alcohol

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