Post #705619 by arriano on Fri, Jan 24, 2014 10:07 AM

Looking at the Coco Palms cocktail menu, I was wondering if I could find a recipe for the Flaming Torch. Did a Google search and found one from the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, Dec. 13, 1964 (page 84) that's supposedly from the Coco Palms:

After dinner, we might enjoy a FlamingTorch at Grace W. Buscher's fabled Coco Palms Resort Hotel at Lihue, on Kauai, Hawaii. Miss Buscher's Flaming Torch is seldom overlooked by knowledgeable guests. For years, some of the competitive hotels experimented to copy this potation, but they could not seem to come up with one that would taste so good and at the same time produce a bright flame. Actually, the formula is very simple -- and delicious. Fill a sturdy (one that will not crack with heat) small glass two-thirds full of white creme de menthe, cover with Southern Comfort, and set fire.

I didn't even know Southern Comfort could be set on fire.

[ Edited by: arriano 2014-01-24 10:10 ]