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Peach, cranberry and orange - the spring-break classic with the schnapps left out.
Ingredients
- 30 ml Jigger One small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a teaspoon. Peach purée - Standing in for the peach schnapps - sieved, so the drink stays smooth
- 60 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) of a standard jigger, plus two teaspoons. Cranberry juice
- 60 ml Jigger One large side (50 ml) of a standard jigger, plus two teaspoons. Orange juice
- 10 ml Spoons Two teaspoons. Lime juice
- 1 wheel Dehydrated orange wheel (optional)
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What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Shake the peach, cranberry and orange with ice and strain over fresh ice.
Method
- Shake the peach purée, cranberry juice, orange juice and lime with ice for 10 seconds.
- Strain over fresh ice in a highball glass.
- Add a wheel of orange and serve it cold.
Serve it
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The name is a joke from the 1980s that has outlived almost everything else about the drink it belongs to, and the alcohol-free version has been on bar lists under it ever since - a spring-break order for the one person in the group who is driving. Peach, cranberry and orange is a good combination whatever it is called, and the peach does not miss its schnapps half as much as you would expect.
Getting it right
Peach schnapps brings sugar and alcohol, not much peach, so purée is the better substitute - but sieve it, or the drink will be full of pulp. Cranberry does the work of keeping it sharp, so use unsweetened juice if you can find it, and give it a squeeze of lime. Shake it rather than building it in the glass: the purée needs the agitation to come together.
Tasting notes
Ripe peach over dark cranberry, with the orange bridging the two and a clean lime finish. Sweet and full-bodied, in the way that only a drink with fruit in it can be.