Calvados Sour
- Total Time
- 2 minutes
- Rating
- Notes
- Read community notes
Advertisement
Ingredients
- 2ounces Calvados (Busnel's Vieille Reserve or Meslon's five year old)
- ¾ounces combination of fresh lime and lemon juices
- 1ounce simple syrup (equal parts water and sugar, heated to dissolve)
Preparation
- Step 1
Mix all ingredients over ice in cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously, and strain into martini glass. Garnish with fresh apple slice.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
Added Pear Schnapps to make it an apple & pear sour…sort of.
I have been a Calvados fan since spending time in Normandy where its quite the back roads distillery tradition. A nice twist on this recipe is to cross it with a bourbon old fashions by adjusting this recipe to use half bourbon and half calvados. They go together surprising well.
Love sipping Calvados neat after a meal, but I needed a cocktail for pre-dinner, and all I had was Calvados. Thankfully I found this recipe and I already had lemons and limes and sugar. Done! Delicious apertif!!
A revelation! Transcends the corporeal drudgery of my mortal toil. It tastes very good.
This is the best use of calvados I've found
Advertisement