Little Jack Horner
The Little Jack Horner cocktail is a winter delight featuring rye whiskey, plum jam, and sage, with a touch of local flavors from Santa Barbara like Margerum Amaro and Grandma Tommie’s Apple Pie Liqueur. Perfect for holiday gatherings or cozy nights by the fire.
Equipment
- Coupe glasses
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Grandma Tommie's Apple Pie Liqueur
- 4 ounces rye, Redemption Rye is suggested
- 1 ounce lemon juice, preferably Meyer lemon
- 1 ounce Margerum Amaro
- 1 tablespoon plum jam
- 4 large sage leaves, plus 2 small sage leaves for garnish
Instructions
- Add the large sage leaves, the plum jam, the lemon juice and the rye into a shaker. Muddle briefly so the sage gets a bit bruised and the jam gets incorporated; in some ways you’re stirring as much as muddling. Add the Apple Pie Liqueur and the Amaro. Add ice and shake well till chilled, perhaps a bit more than usual so that jam gets mixed in well.
- Strain into cocktail glasses in order to get any chunks of the plum and any torn sage out of the drink. Your muddler works as a fine tool to express the liquid out of what gets caught in the strainer. Garnish each glass with one of the smaller sage leaves; to make them even more fragrant, hold one leaf at a time in your palm and clap on it.