Post #599629 by howlinowl on Thu, Jul 28, 2011 9:59 AM

Rum swizzle on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Swizzle

quote:
Different bartenders have varying interpretations of this drink. One of the older recipes was presented in the 1941 Old Mr. Boston De Luxe Official Bartender Guide.[10] Gosling's Rum, which is based in Bermuda, publishes a recipe with two different rums from their brand line.[11] Rum, fruit juice (often including lime, and orange and pineapple juice), and a flavored sweetener such as falernum or grenadine are the most consistent ingredients,[11][12][13] and the drink is generally shaken or stirred with ice.
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So, I'm wondering if instead of swizzle and falernum being different things, it's just different names for the same thing; a flavored sweetner. So instead of having someone asking "what's a swizzle?" or "what's falernum?", they would know that they could use either....since it's the same thing.

howlinowl