Applejack Rabbit circa 1965. [Photograph: Not Without Salt]

Whether you do an official cocktail hour or just want something festive to share with your fellow cooks in the kitchen, here are a few autumnal cocktails to help you celebrate Thanksgiving. A touch of ginger, a hint of apple, smoky liquor, tart cranberries...these drinks are a tasty start to Thanksgiving (and worth keeping on file for post-Thanksgiving parties.)

• Brandy-Apple Punch [CHOW]
• Rosé Sangria with Cranberries and Apples [Food & Wine]
• Cranberry, Gingerly [Bon Appetit]
• Fameuse Cocktail [Art of Drink]
• Shoot A Wild Turkey [Food2]
• Falling Leaves [SE]
• Oh Pear [Imbibe]
• Maple Concord [EatMakeRead]

Rosemary Gin Fizz. [Photograph: Sassy Radish]

• Pumpkin Mezcal Cocktail [LAWeekly]
• Sherry Cocktail [Sloshed!]
• Quince Brandy [SE]
• Smoky Apple [Food & Wine]
• Rosemary Gin Fizz [Sassy Radish]
• Cranberry Culprit [CHOW]
• Apple and Sage Old Fashioned [A Dash of Bitters]
• Pumpkin Pie Cocktail [NY Mag]
• Non-Alcoholic Ginger-Apple Sparkler [SF Gate]
• Applejack Old Fashioned [Cocktail Chronicles]
• The Autumn Orchard [Bon Appetit]
• North by Northwest [Imbibe]
• The Normandy Calvados Cocktail [YumSugar]
• Fernet Old Fashioned [SE]
• Applejack Rabbit circa 1965 [Not Without Salt]
• Maple Leaf Cocktail [Leite's Culinaria]
• Poire Royale [SFGate]