The Eva Recipe
By
Kate Ramos
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Eve was on to something when she bit into that apple—it turns out the fruit makes a pretty delicious soda. Combine that with a bit of brandy and lemon juice, and you’ve got yourself a sinful little cocktail.
What to buy: Sidral Mundet is a lightly fizzy Mexican soda with a clean apple taste. It can be found at any Hispanic grocery store or online. If you can’t find it, sparkling apple juice makes a decent substitute.
This recipe was featured as part of our Cinco de Mayo cocktail menu.
INGREDIENTS
- Ice
- 2 ounces brandy
- 6 ounces Sidral Mundet, chilled
- 1 lemon wedge
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place several ice cubes in a tall glass and add brandy.
- Top with Sidral Mundet, squeeze lemon wedge over top, stir, and serve.
The picture shows a lime, not a lemon.
Sidral has that nice bit of sweet apple flavor. It like to stir this with a cinnamon stick for that touch of fall.
Try this with a dry sparkling apple cider like Farnum Hill cider. Add maple syrup if you want it sweet..... yummmm ....... a drink from further north of the border.....
Apple juice concentrate and seltzer water for the calorie-watcher. You can also control the sweetness/dryness that way.
I was thinking Martinelli's sparkling apple cider...
What about Calvados? simple syrup (mint, thyme, or basil for inflection), A little lemon, a little tonic/seltzer - just riffing...
Though brandy might be dandy, what about reposado tequila instead? Also, what's up with lemon being in the recipe and yet showing lime in the picture, huh? (I personally would go for the lime, anyway...)
How would this be with Laird's Bonded as the brandy? too (forgive the word here).....apple-y??
True, they're always trying to keep the apple down:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creat...
Whoever said it was an apple that Eve bit into? Seems pretty unlikely to me, considering what we know as an apple today is pretty far removed from its ancestral relative. I think it's probably the fault of the same unimaginative Western artists who depicted Jesus and others from the Bible as fair-skinned with Western European features.