Pat O'Brien's Hurricane mix - Yay or nay? - Tiki Drinks and Food

C Chuq Member New Orleans, LA Joined: Sep 29, 2008 Posts: 1	C Chuq Posted posted on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 12:51 AM On 2008-08-27 14:39, oysterschnapps wrote: I guess I should add, then, that I highly recommend Chuck Taggart's recipe, regardless of its authenticity. At the first party where I served it punch-style, everyone loved it, and that's the first party of mine where we had to take somebody to the hospital for drinking-related injuries. So I consider it a great success. For the passion fruit nectar, I use Looza with the sugar water siphoned off per Scottes's suggestion on an old thread here; I increase the rums to 2 oz each; and for the grenadine I use 1 oz of Trader Vic's Grenadine. (If all you have is Rose's Grenadine, it'll work fine, but only use 1/2 oz.) I posted that recipe not for its authenticity, whatever that still means with regards to the Hurricane these days, but 'cause I thought it tasted good -- I'm glad someone's enjoying it. It's my adaptation of a recipe I found in an old Times-Picayune clipping from ages ago, which was someone's take on the powdered/bottled version. I also remember a recipe from a New Orleans cookbook that we used to use for "Hurricane Parties" I threw after I left N.O. for college -- one large can of Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red, a 12-oz. can of frozen orange juice concentrate, and a 6 oz. can of frozen daiquiri mix. Pour 2 ounces each light and dark rum (starting with Bacardi, i.e. "the good stuff," and toward the end of the party with stuff from bottles with white labels and a blue stripe that said only "LIGHT RUM" and "DARK RUM") and fill with that mix. All my felllow students loved it at the time, and it was at least as good as the powdered mix, if not better! If any Hurricane recipe could be called truly authentic, it's probably the one The Bum put in Grog Log, but I recall reading somewhere that the very earliest used actual fresh passion fruit puree. I don't think the published one has been served at Pat O's in my lifetime though, certainly not in my drinking lifetime. I really can't stand that red Kool-Aid they serve by the tanker-load these days ... Oh, by the way, hi y'all. :)

On 2008-08-27 14:39, oysterschnapps wrote:
I guess I should add, then, that I highly recommend Chuck Taggart's recipe, regardless of its authenticity. At the first party where I served it punch-style, everyone loved it, and that's the first party of mine where we had to take somebody to the hospital for drinking-related injuries. So I consider it a great success.

For the passion fruit nectar, I use Looza with the sugar water siphoned off per Scottes's suggestion on an old thread here; I increase the rums to 2 oz each; and for the grenadine I use 1 oz of Trader Vic's Grenadine. (If all you have is Rose's Grenadine, it'll work fine, but only use 1/2 oz.)

I posted that recipe not for its authenticity, whatever that still means with regards to the Hurricane these days, but 'cause I thought it tasted good -- I'm glad someone's enjoying it. It's my adaptation of a recipe I found in an old Times-Picayune clipping from ages ago, which was someone's take on the powdered/bottled version. I also remember a recipe from a New Orleans cookbook that we used to use for "Hurricane Parties" I threw after I left N.O. for college -- one large can of Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red, a 12-oz. can of frozen orange juice concentrate, and a 6 oz. can of frozen daiquiri mix. Pour 2 ounces each light and dark rum (starting with Bacardi, i.e. "the good stuff," and toward the end of the party with stuff from bottles with white labels and a blue stripe that said only "LIGHT RUM" and "DARK RUM") and fill with that mix. All my felllow students loved it at the time, and it was at least as good as the powdered mix, if not better!

If any Hurricane recipe could be called truly authentic, it's probably the one The Bum put in Grog Log, but I recall reading somewhere that the very earliest used actual fresh passion fruit puree. I don't think the published one has been served at Pat O's in my lifetime though, certainly not in my drinking lifetime. I really can't stand that red Kool-Aid they serve by the tanker-load these days ...

Oh, by the way, hi y'all. :)

Post #410781 by Chuq on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 12:51 AM