Originally called a Bermuda Rum Swizzler, (for the Gosling Bermuda Rum!) the name got truncated with the inclusion of the Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum, but the change was worth it!
When Joe mixed this little beauty up for me, I was diggin' it with a powerful love!
It is just the right combination of rum and juices that really scratches me right where I itch!
The Recipe:
Into a cocktail shaker full of ice add:
- 1 whole lime, (squozen and juiced!)
- a 2 count orange juice,
- a 2-count pineapple juice
Strain into a nice hurricane glass and garnish with a wedge of lime and a cherry.
Joe's notes: As the temperatures in the North East soared over the freezing point this past weekend, my palate began to crave a more tropical flavor. The Rum Swizzler, with both falernum and rum, fitted the bill quite nicely, (for further falernum recipes, type "falernum" in the search box on side panel of blog).
Rum and the images it conjures up, desert islands, buried treasures and swashbuckling heroes has been a favorite of mine since childhood. Now before you tag me as some sort of pediatric dipsomaniac or demented Ahab, let me explain.
When I was just a mere lad, dodging my way through the streets of Old Blighty, I would often offer up a few coins to the counter assistant in exchange for a bar of "Old Jamaica." Under the wrapper, embossed with a pirate ship, lay the treasure, a delicious dark chocolate bar crammed with rum soaked raisins.
Another childhood favorite of mine was the "Rum Baba". This was a light pastry similar to a brioche, speckled with raisins and soaked in a thick rum laced sugar syrup. Sitting in class with the front of my school shirt and tie heavily stained with the syrup, I would receive the customary smack around the back of the head. Do you think I cared?
Bus fare spent and pockets stuffed with rum and butter candies, I would happily walk the three miles home.
With age, however, I have put these childhood delicacies behind me. I am now enjoying my rum in its liquid form.
In fact, I am sitting in my Halloween Pirates of the Caribbean costume and drinking a Rum Swizzler out of a pewter tankard.
I hope the wife is not going to make me walk the plank.... Oops! Speaking of treasure....here she comes now.
Ahoy, me mateys!
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This wasn't my first choice for The Video of the Week, but it is so related, and done really well, (and after Joe's notes, I had little choice otherwise!)
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