Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker halfway filled with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an apple slice and maraschino cherry, and serve.

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Jack Rose is the name of a classic cocktail, popular in the 1920s and 1930s, containing applejack, grenadine, and lemon or lime juice. It notably appeared in a scene in Ernest Hemingway's 1926 classic, The Sun Also Rises, in which Jake Barnes, the narrator, drinks a Jack Rose in a Paris hotel bar while awaiting the arrival of Lady Brett Ashley. The Jack Rose is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. The drink is also a favorite of the journalist Rachel Maddow, who demonstrated the creation of the drink for New York Magazine. There are various theories as to the origin of the drink. One theory has the drink being named after, or even invented by, the infamous gambler Bald Jack Rose. Albert Stevens Crockett (Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931) states that it is named after the pink "Jacquemot" (also known as Jacqueminot or Jacque) rose. It has also been posited that the Jack Rose was invented by Joseph P. Rose, a Newark, NJ restauratur, and named by him "in honor" of a defendant in a...

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