Name: Mai Tai (Difford's recipe)
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Rum - 6-10yr old Caribbean blended rum; 30 ml Rum - pineapple rum; 15 ml Orange Curaçao liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Orgeat (almond) syrup; 7.5 ml Amaretto liqueur; 7.5 ml Falernum liqueur; 2.5 ml Crème de menthe (white); 2 Absinthe verte (green); 2 Saline solution

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Half lime shell, mint sprig and fruit stick (skewered pineapple cubes and Luxardo Maraschino cherry)

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice.

1 fl oz	Bacardi 8 year old rum
1 fl oz	Pineapple rum
1/2 fl oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup
1/4 fl oz	Disaronno amaretto
1/4 fl oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
1/12 fl oz	Giffard Menthe Pastille white crème de menthe
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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Bacardi 8 year old rum, 70cl

£ 30.75 £ 1.34 per cocktail, makes 23 Pierre Ferrand Orange Curaçao, 70cl

£ 31.25 £ 0.67 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Giffard Orgeat Syrup, 100cl

£ 7.95 £ 0.06 per cocktail, makes 133 Disaronno amaretto, 70cl

£ 20.95 £ 0.23 per cocktail, makes 93 La Fée Parisienne absinthe, 70cl

£ 46.95 £ 0.27 per cocktail, makes 175

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Review:

I love Daiquiris and this is basically a classic Daiquiri with a few bells and whistles: orange curaçao, lime juice, almond syrup, amaretto, falernum, white crème de menthe, and absinthe. A whopping ten ingredients but it's more an OTT than a "simple is beautiful" cocktail.

History:

An adaptation of Victor Bergeron's (Trader Vic's) 1944 Mai Tai by yours truly.
Mai Tai cocktail history

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Nutrition:

One serving of Mai Tai (Difford's recipe) contains 285 calories.

Alcohol content:

2 standard drinks
22.57% alc./vol. (45.14° proof)
27.8 grams of pure alcohol

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