Post #722367 by Hurricane Hayward on Sun, Jul 13, 2014 1:31 AM

An interesting recipe just surfaced from a rum bar in London that not only riffs on the Jet Pilot, but also includes an alternative recipe for fassionola.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/10923466/Cocktail-of-the-week-the-Autopilot.html

The fassionola recipe is 1 part orange extract to 10 parts Monin grenadine and 10 parts Monin raspberry syrup. I haven't tasted the Monin syrups, so I can't necessarily recommend this, but it seems like it should be a decent enough replica. Especially if you don't have access to Smucker's Red Raspberry Syrup (I understand it's not available in the U.K.) The article refers to fassionola as a "red-fruit syrup that was hugely popular with bartenders in Florida during the Tiki craze, but is no longer in production." Hmmmm, I can think of one particular bar and bartender this may be referring to.

The drink itself is decent enough as well. The mixologist has obviously been studying Donn Beach. It seems like a large amount of fassionola, but it actually balances pretty well thanks to the rums. If anyone's interested, I worked out the proportions in ounces and tweaked a few ingredients:

Autopilot (Sean Fennelly, Portside Parlour, London)

• 1 ounce silver rum
• 1 ounce Appleton Estate VX
• 1 ounce Lemon Hart 151 (or Gosling's 151)
• 1 3/4 ounce grapefruit juice
• 1 1/4 ounce lime juice
• 3/4 ounce fassionola
• 1/2 ounce demerara syrup
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• 2 dashes absinthe (or 1 dash Pernod)

The recipe calls for shaking with lots of ice and straining into a tall glass filled with crushed ice. I just pulse blended in a spindle mixer with lots of crushed ice.

If you're looking for another recipe to use fassionola, this isn't a bad one at all.

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[ Edited by: Hurricane Hayward 2014-07-13 01:45 ]