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1February 7, 2014Cooking by Erica

The Naughty Belle Cocktail: How Ladies Who Lunch Drink Bourbon

Ah, The South. Where the women are elegant, the peaches are juicy and the booze is Bourbon. Let a Southern Belle loose in the pantry and she might very well develop this cocktail. It’s strong balanced with sweet, homegrown, and very easy to love. Just like a Southern woman.

Peach Bourbon Cocktail

I’m going to assume that every single one of my readers canned up the Bourbon Peaches from the Food in Jars book, Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round, last August. If you didn’t, you really must put those beauties on your list for this summer. They are what I used when developing this cocktail, but any plain home-canned peach will work just as well.

If you use store-bought canned peaches for this drink, let me know how they work out. Typically, commercially canned peaches are quite firm compared to home-canned peaches. My guess is you’ll have to muddle the heck out of them to break them up but the flavor will still be good.

The Naughty Belle calls for peaches canned in syrup, bourbon, and freshly squeezed lemon.

Peach Bourbon Cocktail

Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker or mason jar filled with crushed ice.

Peach Bourbon Cocktail

Muddle the heck out of the cocktail components to break up the peaches into slurpable-sized pieces.

Peach Bourbon Cocktail

Serve in a tall glass (or mason jar!), topping up with crushed ice as needed. Try to channel the self-restraint of your inner debutant and don’t slurp down four of these babies in a row. They pack more punch than they let on.

Peach Bourbon Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz. bourbon
  • 1 canned peach half, preferably home-canned
  • 1 oz peach syrup, from canned peaches
  • .5 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice

Method

Muddle all ingredients together with crushed ice in a cocktail shaker or mason jar. Serve in a tall glass with additional crushed ice as needed to fill the glass.


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  • Even if you don’t drink, you should own Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round. The recipe for Roasted Corn Salsa is worth the cost of the book, and (bonus!) Bourbon Peaches is in there too. For real, this book is a keeper. Highly recommended.
  • Our favorite jigger: The OXO Steel Double Jigger. It’s fantastic.
  • Homebrew Husband far prefers Boston Style cocktail shakers like this: Glass and Stainless Two Piece Boston Cocktail Shaker. Or you can use a mason jar.
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Author: Erica Filed Under: Cooking Tagged With: Peaches, Alcohol, BourbonImportant Stuff: Affiliate disclosure

About Erica

Hi! I'm Erica, the founder of NWEdible and the author of The Hands-On Home. I garden, keep chickens and ducks, homeschool my two kids and generally run around making messes on my one-third of an acre in suburban Seattle. Thanks for reading!

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  1. linda says

    February 7, 2014 at 5:12 am

    sounds very nice will have to try it if my peaches grow this year as had no fruit last year

  2. I Wilkerson says

    February 7, 2014 at 6:12 am

    Oh, I did can bourbon peaches last summer! I guess I was meant to drink this cocktail!

  3. Sweetpea says

    February 7, 2014 at 8:03 am

    This is FABULOUS … thanks so much for posting!

  4. cassie says

    February 7, 2014 at 10:16 am

    can’t wait to try this! i love, love, love, my canned peaches in bourbon. they are the best! thank you for sharing this cocktail =)

  5. Dawn Bowden says

    February 7, 2014 at 9:41 pm

    Mmmmmmmmmm! Oh and yummmmmm!!! Slurrrrrpppp!! Ahhhhhhh!

  6. Dawn says

    February 10, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    Is it bad that I just slobbered all over my desk?

  7. Alaina says

    February 14, 2014 at 7:16 pm

    My husband and I agree….best cocktail ever. I canned bourbon peaches and I have just been saving them, hoping for something good…and this is good.

    In fact, it is….we have to get more bourbon good.

  8. Teresa says

    August 3, 2015 at 6:25 pm

    I can’t believe I waited so long to try this cocktail…and I had Bourbon Peaches all winter. Yes, I’m using up last year’s Bourbon Peaches before it’s time to put up this year’s!

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