Post #289432 by PiPhiRho on Sat, Mar 3, 2007 2:27 PM

Since one of the ingredients is currently in season and available in stores, here is my personal recipe for a Suffering Bastard. I do not claim that this is the original recipe, but it is based on the original and is IMHO the ultimate Suffering Bastard.

Some of you may have had this at Tiki Oasis IV. Or was it V? Yeah, I think it was V. It was in Palm Springs whichever it was.

Pi Phi Rho’s Suffering Bastard

You need the following items:

· Blood Orange
· Lime
· Peychaud’s, Orange and Angostura bitters
· Cocktail Shaker
· Double Old Fashioned glass
· Fresh Mint, cocktail cherry
· Ginger Beer (Barret’s., Cock and Bull) or a good ginger ale (Vernor’s)

Start by slicing a wheel or thin wedge from the blood orange and a wheel from the center of the lime. Put the blood orange and lime wheels into the double old fashioned glass and bruise with a muddler. Into the cocktail shaker put:

· Approx. 8 oz. Crushed ice
· The juice of the lime
· 1 tsp. Orgeat Syrup
· 3 dash Peychaud’s bitter
· 2 dash orange bitters
· 1 dash Angostura bitters
· 1 ½ to 2 oz. Gin or White Rum
· 1 oz Bourbon

Shake and pour ice and all into the double old fashioned glass containing the bruised blood orange and lime.

Fill the glass to the top with the ginger beer.

Garnish with mint sprig and cocktail cherry and/or, if you like, cucumber. Lightly stir and serve with a straw.