How to Make a Fruit Flag Cocktail Garnish

A simple maraschino cherry makes a decent garnish, but if you want to step up your Tom Collins or Whiskey Sour game, try another traditional garnish for sour drinks: a fruit flag. Here, how to make a fruit flag garnish.

Tools:
Skewer

Ingredients:
Maraschino cherry, with its stem
Orange or lemon wheel

Cut a wheel from an orange or a lemon and then cut the wheel in half.

Slide the skewer through the pith of one side of the half wheel …

… then through the cherry … 

… then through the pith on the other side of the half wheel. The lemon or orange should look like it’s holding the cherry.

Set the skewer across the rim of a glass.