The recipe
- 1½ ozApplejack45 ml
- ½Juice of half a lime
- 2¼ tspGrenadine11 ml
How to make it
- 1Shake everything with ice.
- 2Strain into a chilled coupe.
Variations: The Savoy (1930) allows half a lemon instead of the lime. Many modern versions split the base between applejack and calvados and add a little sugar syrup.
Straub gives a jigger of applejack, half a lime and a quarter-jigger of grenadine; the numbers take a jigger as 1½ oz. The first printed Jack Rose, in Jack’s Manual (1908), is a longer drink: applejack with raspberry syrup, sugar and three citrus juices, topped with soda.
The ratio
3 : 1 : ¾
In parts, a Jack Rose is 3 Calvados, 1 lime and ¾ grenadine. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.
Built the same way
Head to head
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