GHOSTLY MILK PUNCH
Ingredients
Serves 8 cups (2L)
2 cups (500 ml) whole milk
¾ cup (175 ml) packed Demerara sugar
2 lemons, peel only, no pith
2 cups (500 ml) hot, steeped black tea
1 bottle (750 ml) The Kracken Black Spiced Rum
6 oz (180 ml) Hoyne Dark Matter
2/3 cup (150 ml) lemon juice
Instructions
- In a large container, add milk and set aside. In a second container, combine sugar and lemon peel. Gently muddle peel and sugar until oil releases and mixture starts to look wet and clumpy, 45 to 60 seconds. Add hot tea and stir to dissolve sugar. Stir in remaining ingredients.
- Pour rum mixture into milk (never pour milk into rum) and gently stir curds with a small spoon. Let sit for at least 30 minutes or cover and refrigerate for up to 24 hours. (Chilling before straining improves clarity of the punch.)
- Line a fine-mesh sieve with a coffee filter and set over a large container. Gently pour alcohol-milk mixture through filter (this will take a little time). Change the filter periodically, then discard curds and filter. Continue process as needed for desired clarity. Transfer clarified punch to a resealable container and refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve on the rocks or neat. Garnish as desired.
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CALM BEFORE THE STORM
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Appleton Estate Rum
½ oz (15 ml) Bols Blue Curaçao
1 oz (30 ml) Chrysanthemum Tea
1 oz (30 ml) pineapple juice
¾ oz (22 ml) lime juice
½ oz (15 ml) orgeat syrup
pineapple fronds, for garnish
dehydrated orange wheel, for garnish
Instructions
- In a blender, add ingredients and blend for 10 seconds. Pour into a tall glass and garnish with pineapple fronds and a dehydrated orange wheel.
- To make CHRYSANTHEMUM TEA: Add 6 tbsp (90 ml) Chrysanthemum buds to 4 cups (1 L) hot water. Let sit for 10 minutes, strain into a resealable container and allow to cool. Can be refrigerated for up to 2 weeks.
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YI YI TODDY
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Mount Gay XO Reserve Cask Rum
½ cup (125 ml) Job’s Tears Tea
1 to 2 dashes Black Walnut Bitters
1 lemon wheel, for garnish
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a teacup or mug. Garnish with lemon wheel.
- To make JOB'S TEARS TEA: In a pot, combine ½ cup (125 ml) Job’s Tears (Chinese Pearl Barley), 5 red dates, 1½ tbsp (22 ml) skinned almonds, 1 slice of lemon, 3 to 6 oz (90 to 180 ml) honey and 6 cups (1.5 L) water and bring to boil. Let steep for 5 minutes. Strain and serve.
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SHAKERATO CON PAOLO
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Havana Club 7-Year-Old Rum
½ oz (15 ml) Phillips Butter Ripple Schnapps
½ oz (15 ml) Vanilla Syrup
1 oz (30 ml) espresso
Instructions
- Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker before adding ice. Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a chilled Champagne flute.
- To make VANILLA SYRUP: In a saucepan, boil 2 cups (500 ml) water with 1 scored vanilla pod until reduced to 1 cup (250 ml). Remove vanilla pod. Add 2 cups (500 ml) sugar. Simmer to dissolve. Store in a sealed bottle in refrigerator for up to 3 months.
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B&B MARTINI
Ingredients
Serves 1
¾ oz (22 ml) Bénédictine B&B
1½ oz (45 ml) Bacardi 8-Year-Old Rum
4 dashes Bittered Sling Arabica Coffee Bitters
dark cherry, for garnish
Instructions
- In a mixing glass with cubed ice, combine all ingredients. Stir until chilled and diluted. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a dark cherry.
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SAILOR’S DELIGHT
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Sailor Jerry’s Spiced Navy Rum
1 oz (30 ml) Spiced Pear Cordial, make ahead, recipe follows
¾ oz (22 ml) lemon juice
3 oz (90 ml) soda water
pear slice, for garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine rum, cordial and lemon juice. Shake vigorously and strain into a Collins glass over cubed ice. Top with soda water and garnish with sliced pear.
- MAKE IT A MOCKTAIL: Prepare as above, omitting spiced rum from recipe.
- TO MAKE SPICED PEAR CORDIAL: In a saucepan, combine 2 cups (500 ml) pear juice, 1 cup (250 ml) sugar, 1 tbsp (15 ml) cracked whole allspice, 1 cinnamon stick, 1 tsp (5 ml) citric acid and simmer to dissolve sugar. Once dissolved, remove from heat to cool. Strain out solids and seal in a bottle. Can store in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
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THE WITCHING HOUR
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) The Kraken Black Spiced Rum
¾ oz (22 ml) lemon juice
¾ oz (22 ml) Vanilla Syrup, Recipe follows
10 fresh blackberries, save 1 for garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients. Shake vigorously with ice to smash berries and double strain using a fine strainer into a champagne flute. Garnish with reserved blackberry.
- To make VANILLA SYRUP: Boil 2 cups (500 ml) of water with 1 scored vanilla pod until reduced to 1 cup (250 ml). Remove vanilla pod. Add 1 cup (250 ml) sugar, simmer to dissolve. Store in refrigerator for up to 4 weeks.
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PEOPLE’S COCKTAIL 2.0
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 small piece fresh ginger
1½ oz (45 ml) Havana Club Añejo Reserva rum
1½ oz (45 ml) fresh carrot juice
½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) Honey Ginger Syrup
1 dash of Angostura bitters
lemon twist, for garnish
Instructions
- Place ginger in bottom of a cocktail shaker, muddle it briefly. Add remaining ingredients to shaker, add ice, shake and double-strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
- For HONEY GINGER SYRUP: In a saucepan, bring 2 cups (500 ml) each honey and water to a boil. Add about 1 cup (250 ml) of roughly chopped fresh ginger. Let stand for about 10 minutes. Strain off chunks of ginger and store, refrigerated for up to a month.
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THE MARY PICKFORD COCKTAIL
This Prohibition-era cocktail was created for the Canadian-American film star known as “America’s Sweetheart” by a bartender at the Hotel Nacional in Cuba during the actress’s visit to Cuba in the 1920s.Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) white rum
1½ oz (45 ml) pineapple juice
1 tsp (5 ml) grenadine
½ tsp (2 ml) maraschino liqueur
Instructions
- Place ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry, if desired.
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PASSION COCONUT FIZZLE
Ingredients
Serves 1
PINEAPPLE COCONUT FOAM:
6¾ oz (200 ml) full-fat coconut milk
10 oz (300 ml) pineapple juice, strained
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice, strained
¼ cup (60 ml) granulated sugar
PASSION FIZZLE:
1 oz (30 ml) Bacardí Maestro white rum
1 oz (30 ml) passion fruit purée
½ oz (15 ml) simple syrup
ice cubes
½ cup (125 ml) crushed ice
2 oz (60 ml) plain soda water
Instructions
- To make PINEAPPLE COCONUT FOAM: Combine coconut milk, pineapple and lemon juice and sugar in a bowl. Stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Transfer to a 2 cup (500 ml) whipping cream dispenser and charge with one No. 2 charge. Chill dispenser until very cold, about 15 –30 minutes. Shake well and dispense when needed. When ready to serve, combine rum, purée, syrup and ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously, strain and pour over crushed ice in a Collins glass. Top with soda and a piping of Pineapple Coconut Foam. Serve immediately.