Houstonist Bartender: Applejack Old-Fashioned

What a beautiful week! This weather has us thinking of apple crisp, oven-warm and a la mode. Fall is time for chili, stews, and apple desserts, or simple baked apples, with a nice sprinkling of cinnamon. There may be a flurry of baking activity in our near future.

This weekend in college football (our one true love), the second-ranked Longhorns take on the unranked Knights of UCF at 11:30 a.m., the Tigers take on the Crimson Tide tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. and the thirteenth-ranked Cougars will hopefully clobber the unranked Golden Hurricanes of Tulsa at 6:30 p.m. That's an entire day of football spectating, so we won't be quaffing these bad boys all day. That would be disastrous.

AppleJack Old-Fashioned

1 sugar cube
2 dashes bitters
2 ounces Applejack (4 tablespoons)
ice cubes
lemon twist

In a rocks glass, muddle the sugar cube with the bitters until the sugar has dissolved. Add the Applejack and the ice cubes, stir and garnish with the lemon twist. Sip gently (no mixer, strong drank).

As per usual, be responsible, yadda yadda...