Fresh Whiskey Sours

(from saymyname’s recipe box)

Source: Barefoot Contessa

Serves 4 people

Categories: Barefoot Contessa, Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup whiskey (Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey is recommended)
  • 1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup fresh squeezed lime juice
  • 2/3 cup sugar syrup
  • ice cube
  • maraschino cherry

Directions

  1. Note: to make sugar syrup, bring 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar to a boil, simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved; chill before using.

  2. Combine the whiskey, lemon juice, lime juice, and sugar syrup.

  3. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice; pour in the drink mix 2/3 full.

  4. Shake vigorously for 15 seconds and strain into glasses.

  5. Add a maraschino cherry and serve ice cold.

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