Optional additions here are a star anise pod, which will give a licorice note (not my thing, but you do you), and two or three orange slices, which I don’t like but you’re certainly welcome to if you want. You technically can use powdered versions of these, but I wouldn’t-the pre-ground stuff tastes like a copy of a copy, and it’s not like whole spices go bad once you’ve bought them. of juice, add two smashed cinnamon sticks, six cloves, and a quarter of a bulb of nutmeg. Bottled apple juice is simple and sweet and is largely made for children. If all you have is Motts or Juicy Juice, you can still make this drink and it’ll still be good, but it will lack complexity. It’ll be a little sweeter than you want, but we have ways of dealing with that, below. If all you can get is mass market stuff at the supermarket, you should still be able to find an unfiltered juice. It should be non-alcoholic, brownish, and opaque. You may need to go to a specialty grocery store for this. If you can’t juice your own apples, it’s worth a small amount of work to find some quality unfiltered apple cider. Take a sip and reflect on how some parts of winter are actually pretty nice. Gently pour half-whipped unsweetened cream so it layers on top. Pour whiskey and cider into a pre-heated mug, leaving a little less than one inch of room from the rim. Hot Mulled Apple Cider Cocktailĭesigned for an 8 oz.
This is probably why there are what seem like several thousand food blogs advertising their mulled apple cider cocktail and why so many of them seem to get the main points wrong, so this is my PSA, some dos and don’ts of how to make an exceptional mulled apple cider cocktail, and avoid some of the more dangerous pitfalls. Any slapdash attempt at combining these flavors will yield a B- cocktail at minimum, so you don’t really need to pay attention to all the variables. It is, in fact, not terribly hard to make a decent mulled cider cocktail with no prior knowledge at all. I’ve been personally threatened if I didn’t bring it back, and only half in jest. People just start ordering it in mid-November, even when it’s not on the menu. I manage a cocktail bar in San Diego-not exactly a winter wonderland-and my hot apple cider drink is the only cocktail I’ve ever created that I bring back every single year: partly because it’s seasonal, partly because I love it, but mostly by popular demand. No, his apples-like almost all apples back then-were hard cider apples, and they celebrated him because he was getting them drunk. And unlike the kids version of this story that you’ve almost certainly already heard, this man-“Johnny Appleseed,” as he was called-wasn’t universally loved because the early Americans adored apple cobblers and fruit salad.
Despite his eccentricities, this barefoot hippie virgin was quite popular with both Native Americans and frontiersmen alike, mostly because he was so fond of planting apple orchards, and then once the trees grew, selling them to locals. He was a missionary of a lesser known branch of Christianity, which he believed commanded, among other things, total celibacy until marriage and fervent respect for all animals big and small (he once doused a fire on a cold night because he realized it was killing mosquitos). I admit I am partial to bourbon, and if you love bourbon as I do, you will want to try this Crushed Grape Bourbon Cocktail.A few years after the Revolutionary War, once he turned 18, a bizarre young man named John Chapman decided to head west with his brother. Keep your eye out at the farmer's market or farm stand as those apple ciders are really fresh! I really like the big jug of apple cider that I found at Trader Joe's. Just use an inexpensive wildflower or other honey type. You do not have to use an expensive honey. Honey - I used this for the rim so the cinnamon sugar would stick.If you can't find cider or mulled cider, you can heat your apple juice with a cinnamon stick to get some of the flavors. Apple cider - You can also use a mulled apple cider.It has a sweet mellow flavor that works so well with the cinnamon and apple flavors. Bourbon - I love the flavor of apple cider and bourbon and it is my alcohol of choice for this recipe.He serves it at our family Thanksgiving celebration every year.Īlthough I don't have his homemade apple cider to make this apple cider bourbon cocktail, I created this cocktail as a tribute :-). Each year he picks a lot of the apples and makes a homemade apple cider out of it.
We have an uncle who has an enormous apple tree in his backyard.