Recipe: Original Drink Formulas by Hamo - Tiki Drinks and Food

H Hamo Grand Member (3 years) Colorado (via Iowa) Joined: Aug 22, 2016 Posts: 2068	H Hamo Posted posted on Tue, Dec 5, 2017 9:13 PM I came to tiki through my longtime interest in cocktails. I’ve never been a professional bartender (although two years ago, I tried to quit my job and thought I’d occupy my unemployed time by going to bartending school. None of that ever happened. Long story; we’ll have a drink sometime and I’ll tell you it), but I’d say that creating cocktails is an amateur hobby. I’ve shared some of my recipes (or “formulas,” as Trader Vic calls them in his Rum Cookery & Drinkery book) in the “What Are You Drinking” thread, but I thought I’d put them all in a new, specific thread. I’m not quite as visually artistic as others on TC, but this is one way I think I can contribute and share some tiki inspired talent. Today is Repeal Day, so I thought I’d start with a Club Babita. Club Babita 3/4 oz light Virgin Islands rum 3/4 oz gold Jamaican rum 1 oz pineapple juice 2 tsp falernum 1 tsp maraschino liqueur 1 dash orange bitters Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Pineapple is my favorite fruit, so I look for ways to use the juice in recipes. I was thinking about a classically-styled cocktail when I was working on this formula, and after playing with the falernum and maraschino amounts, settled on this version. Naming it was easy; I’d recently watched the 1949 Doris Day movie, My Dream is Yours, where she dances in a bamboo club and imagined my drink could have been the house cocktail, so I named it after the place.

I came to tiki through my longtime interest in cocktails. I’ve never been a professional bartender (although two years ago, I tried to quit my job and thought I’d occupy my unemployed time by going to bartending school. None of that ever happened. Long story; we’ll have a drink sometime and I’ll tell you it), but I’d say that creating cocktails is an amateur hobby. I’ve shared some of my recipes (or “formulas,” as Trader Vic calls them in his Rum Cookery & Drinkery book) in the “What Are You Drinking” thread, but I thought I’d put them all in a new, specific thread. I’m not quite as visually artistic as others on TC, but this is one way I think I can contribute and share some tiki inspired talent.

Today is Repeal Day, so I thought I’d start with a Club Babita.

Club Babita

3/4 oz light Virgin Islands rum
3/4 oz gold Jamaican rum
1 oz pineapple juice
2 tsp falernum
1 tsp maraschino liqueur
1 dash orange bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Pineapple is my favorite fruit, so I look for ways to use the juice in recipes. I was thinking about a classically-styled cocktail when I was working on this formula, and after playing with the falernum and maraschino amounts, settled on this version. Naming it was easy; I’d recently watched the 1949 Doris Day movie, My Dream is Yours, where she dances in a bamboo club and imagined my drink could have been the house cocktail, so I named it after the place.

Post #782093 by Hamo on Tue, Dec 5, 2017 9:13 PM