Monday, August 24, 2026

Recipe: The Stone Fence

Rum and cider cocktail
For a marriage of colonial ingredients and modern convenience, ring in the New Year with a warm Stone Fence. (Courtesy The Williamsburg Distillery)

The Stone Fence

This one blends simplicity, colonial roots and 20th-century convenience.

  • Mix a shot of rum with a serving of hard cider or regular (non-alcoholic) apple cider.
  • Add cinnamon, a little nutmeg and a hint of allspice.
  • Heat in a microwave. Garnish with citrus/lemon.
  • Serve.

Yield: One cocktail.

Courtesy William Dodson Jr., The Williamsburg Distillery.

Joan Quigley
Joan Quigley
Joan Quigley is a former Miami Herald business reporter, a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and an attorney. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, TIME.com, nationalgeographic.com and Talking Points Memo. Her recent book, Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital, was shortlisted for the 2017 Mark Lynton History Prize. Her first book, The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy, won the 2005 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.

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