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Penang Afrididi

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Double Old-Fashioned

Donn Beach's lost passion fruit and Pernod-laced rum drink, reconstructed from Dick Santiago's notes.

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Ingredients

  • fresh lime juice (0.25 oz)
  • fresh pineapple juice (0.5 oz)
  • fresh orange juice (0.5 oz)
  • passion fruit syrup (0.5 oz)
  • Pernod (0.125 tsp)
  • light Puerto Rican rum (1.5 oz)
  • amber Virgin Islands rum (1.5 oz)
  • crushed ice (6 oz)
  • mint sprig

Instructions

  1. Combine fresh lime juice, fresh pineapple juice, fresh orange juice, passion fruit syrup, Pernod, light Puerto Rican rum, and amber Virgin Islands rum in a blender.
  2. Add crushed ice and flash-blend at high speed for 5 seconds.
  3. Pour unstrained into a double old-fashioned glass.
  4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Sources

  1. Berry, Sippin' Safari (2017 ed.), Penang Afrididi entry, Berry's reconstruction of the 1937 Donn Beach drink from the Dick Santiago bartender notebook recoveries. ↩
  2. Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum (2006), Donn Beach's "exotic-elsewhere" naming convention discussed in the broader American-tropical context; Caribbean rum carrying the actual flavor while the label gestures toward unrelated geographies. ↩