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Apple Blossom

Name: Apple Blossom
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 20 ml Calvados apple brandy; 30 ml Orange juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

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Photographed in an Urban Bar Retro Optic Coupette 15cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Apple Blossom contains 188 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
19.03% alc./vol. (38.06° proof)
20.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

In W. J. Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book, the invention of this cocktail is credited to one R. G. Buckby.

APPLE BLOSSOM
Invented by R. G. Buckby
Dash Calvados.
2/3 Gin, Dry.
1/3 Orange Juice.
Shake.
W. J. Tarling, Café Royal Cocktail Book, 1937

Review

A Gin & Juice with a little extra interest courtesy of a splash of apple brandy.

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Simone 27w

Vodka 45ml instead of gin because I don't like it with orange juice. Calvados 45ml. Quite a boozy drink but halfway through the apple aroma expanded in a surprising way.

Bocman 47w

There’s something wrong with the cocktail. It really depends on your calvados. Mine is like white wine, and maybe it ruined this cocktail. 🙁

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