COLLECTION: Rum Swizzles – Beverages and Drinks Recipes

Recipe ingredients and directions:

Swizzles originated in the West Indies, where everything,

including hot chocolate, is swizzled. A swizzle stick is the branch

of a tropical bush with three to five forked branches on the end. You

insert this in the glass or pitcher and twirl the stem rapidly between

the palms of your hands. By rapid swizzling with fine ice, you’ll get

a good outside frost such as on a Julep.

MARTINIQUE SWIZZLE

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1/2 lime

1 dash Angostura bitters

1 dash rock candy syrup [saturated sugar-water solution]

1 dash Herbsaint

2 ounces rum (St. James, Martinique, Blackhead, Charleston)

Squeeze lime juice into 14-ounce chimney glass filled with shaved ice;

save shell. Add remaining ingredients. Swizzle until drink is

uniform. Decorate with spent lime shell, fresh mint, and a long

stirrer.

KONA SWIZZLE

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1/2 lime

1/2 ounce orgeat syrup (French almond syrup)

1/2 ounce Barbados Rum (medium cane rum – can substitute

Puerto Rican gold rum)

1 ounce Diergert’s Bouquet rum

Squeeze lime juice into 12-ounce sling or punch glass, filled with

shaved ice; save lime shell. Add orgeat and rums. Swizzle until

drink is uniform. Decorate with spend lime, fresh mint, and fruit

stick.

Here’s a hot drink:

KINGSTON SWIZZLE

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1/2 lime

1 teaspoon bar sugar

2 ounces dark Jamaica rum [Myer’s dark]

Hot water

Squeeze lime juice into 12-ounce glass; add spent shell. Add sugar,

and stir well. Add rum and enough hot water to nearly fill glass.

Serve with swizzle stick.

Category: Beverages & Drinks Recipes