Post #612230 by Swanky on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 11:38 AM

On 2011-07-20 18:15, arriano wrote:

On 2011-07-18 10:33, Rawim wrote:
If you can somehow get your hands on some of the stuff I do encourage it, as it seems that this was a somewhat common mixer back in the day.

You know, I've read such statements before on Tiki Central, but other than the "Hawaii Tropical Rum Drinks & Cuisine by Don the Beachcomber" book, I have never seen fassionola listed as an ingredient for a cocktail. It's not in Beachbum Berry's books, and it's not in Ted Haigh's "Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails." Neither is it listed in the Trader Vic's cocktail books. If you know of another book out there that features fassionola in recipes, please let us know.

I have a hand written set of recipes by Mariano Licudine of the Mai-Kai and he calls for "Passionola" which may well be "Fassionola" mis-written. Many of the ingredients are not spelled normally or even the same from one recipe to the next.