RECIPE

Smashed Cherry Lemonade

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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.

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  • ACTIVE:
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  • SERVINGS: makes 1 drink

Ingredients

  • 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.