Author Notes
This summer sipper is made with fresh peach nectar and Kentucky bourbon! —garlic and zest
Ingredients
- for peach nectar
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4
large peaches, peeled and sliced
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1 cup
sugar
- for each cocktail
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2 ounces
bourbon
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3 tablespoons
peach nectar
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juice of 1/2 a lemon
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3
dashes bitters
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1 cup
ice
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1
slice of peach - fresh or from the sugared peaches
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fresh lemon slice
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maraschino cherry
Directions
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For the peach simple syrup, peel, pit and slice the peaches. Transfer the peaches to a bowl and add the sugar. Toss to coat and set aside for one hour. Set a strainer over a bowl and pour the peaches into the strainer - to collect the peach simple syrup. Leftover peaches can be used in a fruit crisp or as a topping to ice cream or pound cake or in a homemade peach pie.
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Add the bourbon, simple syrup, lemon juice and bitters to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake vigorously until the cocktail is very cold and frothy, about 30 seconds. Pour into a cocktail glass and serve with a fresh peach wedge, slice of lemon and a maraschino cherry.
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