Chef Steve McHugh of Cured in San Antonio, Texas shares this simple cocktail formula that can be changed out for variations on liquor and jam. “I love a cocktail that uses ingredients you probably have lying around the house. This may seem like just a three-ingredient cocktail, but its personality changes depending on what jam you have and what type of liquor you pair with it. The jam adds sweetness but also fruity flavor and body, while the club soda lightens everything up,” he says.
Suggested Jam and Spirit Pairings
Jam
Peach
Blueberry
Blackberry
Strawberry
Prickly Pear
Apricot
Spirit
Bourbon
Gin
Mezcal
Vodka
Tequila
Rum
For recipes on how to make your own jam, read Steve McHugh’s latest cookbook, Cured.
recipe 
yields
Makes 1 cocktail
2 ounces liquor (see pairings)
1½ tablespoons jam
¼ cup club soda
Ingredients
steps
- Add the spirit and jam to a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake well to allow the ice to melt and the jam to break up, at least 20 seconds. Strain the cocktail into a collins glass filled with ice.
- Top with the club soda.
Date Published: 03.18.24
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Reprinted with permission from Cured by Steve McHugh & Paula Forbes, copyright © 2024. Photographs by Denny Culbert. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. -
Contributing City
San Antonio
