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Bachelor’s Jam Jack Rose Recipe

Bachelors Jam Jack Rose cocktail

Bachelor's Jam Jack Rose Recipe

The first sip is always ethereal, with all of the previous year’s flavors revealing themselves one by one.

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ounces strained Bachelor’s Jam
  • ¾ ounce Honey Syrup (recipe follows)
  • ¾ ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice

Honey Syrup

  • ¾ cups honey
  • ¼ cup boiling water

Instructions
 

  • Shake, strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with fruit from the Bachelor’s Jam.
    In a large earthenware pot, add seasonally available fruit and cover it by a ½ inch with Laird’s Applejack. Cover with a tight-fitting lid. Continue this process throughout the year until it is ready to drink in December, then strain out fruit to save for dessert. Use within 1 year.
    HONEY SYRUP
    Add the boiling water to the honey and stir to incorporate.
    Store in the refrigerator and use within 1 year.
    ~
    Enough for 10 drinks

Notes

Bachelor’s Jam (recipe adapted from The River Cottage Preserves Handbook by Pam Corbin)

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