TOMS FOOLERY: Apples & Oranges

TOM'S FOOLERY day 3:

PINKY MIXOLOGY 2014 APPLEJACK-OFF PRESENTS: 
APPLES & ORANGES

Tom's Foolery Applejack could seriously take the place of whiskey in just about any drink.  This includes the ubiquitous whiskey sour.  So in re-initiating our fruit connection, we've taken on the Whiskey Sour and decided to come up with something called Apples & Oranges.  This is a simple one as well, but you will need:

Software:
Applejack (Tom's Foolery)
A Lime (...from wherever)
An Orange (try for organic, which won't have FD&C Red no. 2 in the peel.  Regular oranges have that).
Sugar (we use Sugar in the Raw, but honestly anything works).

Hardware:
Old Fashioned Glass
Bar Spoon /  Other stirring tool or device
Muddler (one that is good with citrus, such as the Arctic Chill)
Strainer (fine mesh).


Unlike shaken whiskey sours however, this cocktail is made in a bar glass, since muddling is involved.  This is because sour mix usually doesn't contain orange in it, and we want to make sure we get it in there (otherwise we couldn't call this Apples & Oranges).  












If you choose to shake with ice, strain it first so that you don't get bits of lime and orange all on the inside of your shaker.  We found we didn't have to shake it at this point, and as you'll see a carbonated mixer in the next slide, we had not a reason to shake it at that point.


Sidral Mundet can usually be found wherever you find Jarritos sodas, such as Mexican restaurants / take-out joints, as well as grocery stores and bodegas that cater to the south-of-the-border crowd.  See what it looks like on our Tumblr.  Sidral Mundet and Jarritos have become very popular in the U.S.A. for having no High Fructose Corn Syrup (seriously nothing makes a cocktail worse than HFCS stuff...), and also for having unique flavors like grapefruit and tamarindo...  Word of advice, never drink the tamarindo.



We don't know what happened and we don't have any Tom's Foolery left (sad-face), so we could either fake it with tea or something and take a new photo, or just show the original to you as best we can.  Since color is important, we went with the authentic photo.   As you can see, it kind of looks like an unfiltered apple spritzer, but it's much better than that.




Have fun with it and we'll see you tomorrow!