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Apricot Stone Sour

Name: Apricot Stone Sour
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Orange juice; 30 ml Lime juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Orange bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Old Fashioned

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of apricot wedge or dried apricot half.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with apricot wedge or half.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Apricot Stone Sour contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
12.07% alc./vol. (24.15° proof)
14.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from Vincent Sardi Jr. & George Shea's 1988 Sardi's Bar Guide.

APRICOT (BRANDY) STONE SOUR
A stone sour is, of course, a sour with the addition of orange juice.
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
1 ounce lemon juice, preferably freshly squeezed
2 ounces apricot brandy
2 ounces orange juice, preferably freshly squeezed
½ slice orange or lemon for garnish
1 maraschino cherry for garnish
Combine ingredients with ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into cocktail glass, or empty contents, ice cubes and all, into an Old-Fashioned glass and serve on the rocks. Garnish with ½ slice orange or lemon and a maraschino cherry.
Vincent Sardi & George Shea, Sardi's Bar Guide, 1988

Review

The name says it all. Sweet 'n' sour and apricot flavoured.

Variations/similar cocktails

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Tequila Stone Sour
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Comments & Discussion

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Tim Fitch Premium Member 1y

Apricot flavour is in your face, doesn’t mean it’s not good. Sherbet sharpness very prominent. May try the G.M. Genovese’s variant noted below

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

Made this twice, both times half size. The all-apricot version is just way over the top. Second time, cut the Abricot du Rousillon 1:1 with Wild Turkey 101 and the apricot is still clarion intense. I recommend that approach.