Name: Basil and Honey Daiquiri
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 6 fresh Basil leaves; 50 ml Light white rum; 15 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Honey and water syrup; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Basil & Honey Daiquiri
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
6 fresh	Basil leaves
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s optional

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of basil leaf.

How to make:

MUDDLE basil in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with basil leaf boat floated on cocktail.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Basil adds dry vegetal notes to a Canchànchara (honey) Daiquiri.

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History:

Created in 2005 by yours truly in London, England.

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Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

15.8 grams of pure alcohol

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G. M. Genovese

18th April 2024 at 15:11

This strikes me as something that could have some interesting flavor variations depending on the brands used. If you are able to get your hands on some Barr Hill Raw Honey, please go for it. I used a 2:1 honey syrup made with it, in addition to Plantation 3 Stars (only white rum I have in house at the moment). Turned out to be a stellar combo, maybe begging for a pinch of black pepper.

Jos Eijkelestam

23rd July 2021 at 22:37

Why is the recipe here different than in the book?
Here you use 7 basil leaves and use 1 2/3 shot rum and in the book 3 leaves and 2.5 shots rum.

No I don't know which is the correct one.

Simon Difford

24th July 2021 at 17:47

I'm always updating and trying to improve recipes. I can't change what's already in print but I do bring out updated editions of the book. Tellingly, I've now dropped this cocktail from my book and it doesn't appear as one of the 3000 cocktails I chose for the 15th edition published 2020.

Luca Viviani

2nd August 2020 at 11:22

Very pleasing cocktail, I would recommend to enjoy it after dinner. Next time I will somewhat reduce the amount of honey, as it turned out sweeter than I expected.

Jon Pidwerbecki

20th May 2020 at 00:35

I thought adding lime 2x was a mistake. Adding the second portion brought life to the drink However used about 1/2 the total lime adding just to my taste. I added 2 basil leaves prior to shaking and floated 1 on top for serving. Great flavor

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