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Ardent Spirits e-letter
Volume 9, Issue 7, May 18, 2007
by Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan
© 2007 Reganomics, Inc.
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In This Issue:
Cheap Date: The Eclipse Cocktail
And what, you might be
wondering,
does the Eclipse Cocktail have in common with a Cheap Date? Nothing really. This just seemed like a decent place to
put the recipe. The earliest printed recipe we can find
for this drink is in The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930, by Harry Craddock, and
since there was a total eclipse of the sun was witnessed in The recipe is fairly simple, but fun--it
calls for an olive to be drowned in a sea of grenadine at the bottom of the
glass, perhaps signifying the sun being blocked from view. Or not . . . Olives and grenadine don’t mix too well,
in our opinion, so we’ve opted for a cherry in this version, and rather than
using grenadine (unless you have some homemade stuff, of course, we’re
suggesting that you substitute PAMA, pomegranate liqueur. Far better, we think. Here, then, is our version of the
Eclipse:. . . The
Eclipse Cocktail 1 maraschino cherry 3/4 ounce PAMA pomegranate liqueur 1 1/2 ounce gin 1 1/2 ounces sloe gin 1 orange twist, for garnish Drop the cherry into a chilled cocktail
glass and pour the PAMA into the glass.
Stir the gin and sloe gin together over ice, and pour carefully over
the PAMA, making sure that the mixture floats on the liqueur. Add the garnish. The
Original Eclipse Cocktail For your records, this is how the recipe
appeared in the Savor Cocktail Book. 1/3 Dry Gin 2/3 Sloe Gin Put enough grenadine in a cocktail glass
to cover a ripe olive. Mix the
spirits together and pour gently onto the Grenadine so that it does not mix. Squeeze orange peel on top.
Trivia A solar eclipse can only occur at new moon
when the moon passes between the earth and the sun. A lunar eclipse can only occur at full
moon. During the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991, There were eclipses during the same weeks
when Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, released, and became President of South
Africa. The first recorded mention of an eclipse
came from Next
Eclipses It’s not a bad idea to offer this drink
around the time of an actual eclipse, so, if you’d like to know when the
next eclipses will take place, go here Worldwide Bartender Bulletin
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