Recipe: Holiday Manhattan

This recipe is definitely not traditional - except in my family. It is sweet, and meant to be You will have to do the math for single servings, this is the way I got it from my Grandfather, who always made a batch (or two) for the Holidays.

Holiday Manhattan Ingredients

• cup white sugar

• cup hot water

• 1 (750 milliliter) bottle bourbon whiskey

• 1? cups sweet vermouth

• cup cherry juice

• 2 teaspoons aromatic bitters

• 12 maraschino cherries

How to Make Holiday Manhattan

1. Dissolve the sugar in hot water in a large pitcher. Stir in the whiskey, vermouth, cherry juice and bitters. Serve in glasses over ice and garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Holiday Manhattan Nutritions

• Calories: 264.6 calories

• Carbohydrate: 19.9 g

• Cholesterol: 0 mg

• Fat: 0 g

• Fiber: 0 g

• Protein: 0.1 g

• SaturatedFat: 0 g

• ServingSize:

• Sodium: 3.9 mg

• Sugar: 15.2 g

• TransFat:

• UnsaturatedFat:

Holiday Manhattan Reviews

• This recipe reads like that for a very sweet Manhattan. I scaled it down to one drink and as promisedit WAS very sweet, so not fair of me to judge. (The hot water is there to melt the sugar, I imagine). If you omit the sugar and sub grenadine (maraschino cherry "juice") that actually might lesson the toothache factor. Im a sucker for a Bourbon Manhattan so this is a fun recipe to toy with

• The hubs....aka the Manhattan King....loved it. The bitters do help with the extra sugar. Added extra cherry juice, just for his personal preference.

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