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Book-Club Buck

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Book-Club BuckCookbook cover image courtesy of Random House

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 1

Ingredients

2 ounces Amontillado sherry
1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) fresh lime juice
2–3 ounces club soda
curl of lime peel, for garnish

Preparation

  1. Pour the sherry, simple syrup , and lime juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well (until condensation forms on the entire shaker). Strain the mixture into a rocks glass filled with ice. Top with the club soda. Place the lime peel in the glass.

Peterson's Happy Hour by Valerie Peterson. Copyright © 2010. Published by Clarkson Potter. All Rights Reserved. VALERIE PETERSON is a writer descended from a long line of therapeutic concoctionists. A native of Yonkers, New York, she now lives in (and enjoys an occasional) Manhattan.
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