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Donn Beach's daiquiri-style two-rum freeze with Cointreau and falernum, found in Mariano Licudine's notebook.

rum tiki classic mid-century blended frozen daiquiri-variant falernum
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Ingredients

  • crushed ice (0.5 cup)
  • fresh lime juice (0.75 oz)
  • falernum (0.25 oz)
  • Cointreau (0.5 oz)
  • Virgin Islands light rum (1 oz)
  • Puerto Rican dark rum (0.5 oz)
  • maraschino cherry (1)

Instructions

  1. In an electric blender combine crushed ice, fresh lime juice, falernum, Cointreau, Virgin Islands light rum, and Puerto Rican dark rum.
  2. Blend at high speed for .
  3. Strain into a frozen champagne coupe.
  4. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Sources

  1. Berry, Sippin' Safari (2017 ed.), Vicious Virgin chapter, Berry's reconstruction of Donn Beach's c. 1937 spec, recovered from Mariano Licudine's notebook (Licudine moved from Don the Beachcomber's Chicago to the Mai-Kai in Fort Lauderdale, carrying the Don catalog with him). ↩
  2. "Vicious Virgin Cocktail." Kitchen Riffs. http://www.kitchenriffs.com/2016/08/the-vicious-virgin-cocktail.html (accessed 2026-05-03; URL currently returns SSL certificate errors), secondary published version of the Berry reconstruction; the spec is independently corroborated by Berry's Sippin' Safari at footnote 1. ↩
  3. Berry, Beachbum Berry Remixed (2010), Vicious Virgin / Vicious Virgin No. 2 entries, disambiguates the Donn Beach original from the unrelated 1960s Pago Pago (Tucson) tequila-based "Vicious Virgin No. 2." ↩