Sour Cherry Pie Cocktail and Anne with an e

Drink pairing! 

Sour Cherry Pie Cocktail:

1.5 oz sour cherry vodka (I made this by leaving cherries in vodka for a while)

1.5 oz sour cherry juice (frozen, from aforesaid cherries)

.5 oz dry vermouth

Dash of bitters (optional)

Splash of sparkling water or more, depending on taste

Serve over ice. 

While sipping, read with Anne of Green Gables (published 1908), the first and best of the Anne series by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. This is a comfort read, but manages to be wholesome and energetic in a nineteenth century way that is very suitable for a cocktail with the word “pie” in its name. Anne is the poetic redhead who says, “I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.”

The cocktail is extremely simple, as long as you’ve arranged to procure sufficient sour cherries during their very brief moment of being in season to make your own sour cherry vodka. Since I don’t live near sour cherry orchards, it’s kind of a project and involves ordering ahead by the five gallon bucket. It’s simple in a wholesome nineteenth century way, innocent just like Anne, with an e. Like it, it’s the kind of thing that actually exists later.