Sam Heughan: Sam’s Garden Appletini

I made this for a party I gave at my house in Scotland to celebrate the end of Outlander. I’m lucky to have several apple trees there but they’d never borne any fruit. Maybe they knew I’d come to the end of my journey with Outlander, because that year they produced an enormous amount of sour green apples, too sour to eat. 

I thought next best thing would be to put them into a cocktail so I used a bottle of gin and a bottle of vodka, then I cut up 10 apples and left them to infuse in the alcohol for a few days. Once strained, it had this beautiful pale green colour that I stirred some vermouth into and it went down a storm at the party. Afterwards the trees were completely bare as my friends had removed the last of the apples to throw at each other!

Extracted from The Cocktail Diaries, Sam Heughan (Quadrille, £20) Photography ©Matt Russell. Buy Now 

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