Hurricane recipe

[kestrell]

Seriously, I haven't had a drink in a year, since last Mardi Gras, and I can't even remember the last time I drank at 8 in the morning, but the Virtual Queen of the Mardi Gras has responsibilities. Also, I think it improves my typing.

Let me set the scene: It's 8 a.m. in the kitchen of Melville Keep, and Kestrell, Queen of the mardi Gra, is doing quality control on the hurrican recipe being developed using her housemate, Andrea's, bartending skills, in combination with her maths skills, and this is what we came up with: it's a little on the tart side, rather than the overly-sweet traditional version served to tourists.

Andrea's Hurricane recipe:

3.5 oz rum
3.75 oz pomegranate juice
1 oz passionfruit syrup
1 oz lime juice

*Blind well.* (We used one of those single serving fruit smoothie blenders.)

Brands that I've used:
blackheart rum
Pom pomegranate (in the weird bottle)
Monin passionfruit (Goya is good also)
Fresh limes (very important!)

Pomegranate juice needs to have zero additives and is not from concentrate.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

That sounds like a lively way to start your day. I've never had passionfruit nor its syrup -- I'm guessing a complex flavor like a pineapple? Feel free to set me straight.

Also, your mixology directive has the best typo.

[kestrell]

I could swear I proofread that three times and it sounded write to me.

Yes, passionfruit syrup has a similar tropical fruit smell to pineapple: its almost floral.

Now I need to go find out why Jaws or Windows isnt typing apostrophes or letting me use the delete key, wtf? I rebooted my PC and I have no ideas whats happening here...

[bibliofile]

Yum. Will have to make these someday.

Passionfruit syrup? I suppose it's hard to find plain juice in small containers.

[kestrell]

A little of the syrup does go a long way, and I usually end up pouring some of it down the sink, but you could probably also make up a plain sugar syrup and add some other tropical fruit flavoring, like pineapple or mango, according to our preference. Weve been tweaking this recipe for years. The original recipe used lemon instead of lime, but we like lime better, so we decided to try that this year, and then had to tweak the rum, which is sweet, to balance out the juices, which are tart. You want to be sparing with the sugary syrup though, because it can easily tip over into too sweet. Our first batch, the elements didnt quite blend, but the second batch, they suddently worked together.

Apologies for the typos--Windows is not letting me use my apostrophe or my delete key, and yet my language setting seems to be correct, so thank you Windows for stressing my Sunday morning, sigh...