Post #319830 by bamalamalu on Thu, Jul 19, 2007 8:54 AM

Strange. It is really hard to catch all the specific ingredients since they go so quickly, so I'm not 100% on anything. When I've been watching, I've always seen the same hand movements, though. They start with dark rum in one hand and light rum in the other. Then the light rum hand switches bottles (I believe to the orgeat), while the dark rum keeps pouring. Now I'm trying to remember whether there is another quick splash of something else (I guess orange) before the squirt from the hose & straw go in. Like I said, I'm sure someone more expert will set it straight!

I know the recipe in Intoxica is a little different than what they're doing now (no shaker, Meyers vs. Coruba); I don't know what was original, what was switched, etc. I don't have one to verify with, but I am pretty darn sure the menu & table cards used to refer to the original recipe, unchanged since 1954 (or '55), and they don't anymore.

All this is making me wanna go over and have one for lunch, though.