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Recipe: Ina Garten's Fresh Whiskey Sours

In her #1 New York Times bestseller "Barefoot Contessa at Home," author Ina Garten writes, "I believe in keeping cocktails simple." She demonstrates that with her recipe for Fresh Whiskey Sours.

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A Fresh Whiskey Sour, prepared by Ina Garten. CBS News

Ina Garten's Fresh Whiskey Sours
Make 4 Cocktails

Ingredients:

3/4 cup Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (3 lemons)
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (4 limes)
2/3 cup sugar syrup
Maraschino cherries

Instructions:

Combine the whiskey, lemon juice, lime juice, and syrup.  Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice, and fill two-thirds full with the cocktail mixture.  Shake for 30 seconds and pour into martini glasses.  Add a maraschino cherry and serve ice cold.

From "Barefoot Contessa at Home" by Ina Garten. Copyright 2006. Published by Clarkson Potter. All Rights Reserved. 

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