RECIPE

Smashed Cherry Lemonade

• Recipe by Cocktails 2007

Cookshop • New York City
Bar manager Lateefah Curtis serves this drink with fresh bing cherries in summer to complement chefs Marc Meyer and Joel Hough's Greenmarket-driven New American menu.

Ingredients

1. 5 bing or brandied cherries
2. 4 lemon wedges
3. 1 ounce Simple Syrup
4. Ice
5. 2 ounces vodka
6. 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
7. 1 ounce chilled club soda

Directions

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle 4 cherries, 3 lemon wedges and the Simple Syrup. Add ice and the vodka and lemon juice. Shake well; strain into an ice-filled highball glass. Stir in the soda. Garnish with the last cherry and lemon wedge.