Name: Accoutrement
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Calvados & straight applejacks; 22.5 ml Strega liqueur; 15 ml Créole Shrubb liqueur; 22.5 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 2 Peychaud's / Creole bitters

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Torrone Stregga Ricoperto di Cioccolato across rim (or brandied cherries)

How to make:

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

2 fl oz	Avallen Calvados
3/4 fl oz	Liquore Strega
1/2 fl oz	Créole Shrubb liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
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Avallen Calvados, 70cl

£ 34.25 £ 2.98 per cocktail, makes 11.5 Liquore Strega, 70cl

£ 27.75 £ 0.90 per cocktail, makes 31 Clément Créole Shrubb liqueur, 70cl

£ 30.95 £ 0.67 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Peychaud's Aromatic Bitters, 8cl

£ 9.25 £ 0.46 per cocktail, makes 20

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Review:

Chris originally garnished this Calvados Sidecar/Applecart-like cocktail with brandied cherries but Strega's excellent chocolates seem a far more fitting accoutrement.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2008 by Chris Hannah at Arnaud's French 75 Bar, New Orleans, USA.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Accoutrement contains 242 calories.

Alcohol content:

2.3 standard drinks
26.24% alc./vol. (52.48° proof)
31.7 grams of pure alcohol

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