Post #683682 by Atomic Tiki Punk on Wed, Jun 26, 2013 8:46 PM

On 2013-06-26 16:18, snugharbor wrote:
The recipe from my website is the original Mai Tai recipe from Don the Beachcombers bar book. That's the original Mai Tai. When you go to many Tiki Bars they will have put the Prenod, Cointreau and Falernum together in one bottle for ease of making multiple drinks and to hide the ingredients.Hope that helps

This is the exact recipe from "Don the Beachcomber's Little Hawaiian Tropical Drink Cookbook" 2004
by Phoebe Beach & Arnold Bitner

And this exact recipe is listed in "Beachbum Berry Remixed" as a "Mai Tai Swizzle"
But the 1944 Donn's "Mai Tai" was reformulated and uses their version of Pimento Dram & other spices
still said to be a secret & is what is served at Don the Beachcomber today.

I only bring this all up as it is posted on the Snug Harbor website & I thought was always an interesting
bit of history (for myself I have tried this recipe & consider it the least tasty of all published recipes
and much prefer the Trader Vic's Mai Tai (which Beachbum contends is based on the original Q.B. Cooler recipe from Don's 1937)
& the current version of Don the Beachcomber's Mai Tai which is nothing like the "Swizzle" version)

:) & a :drink: :drink: :drink: