Name: Treacle No.1
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Aged Jamaican rum; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 25 ml Aged Jamaican rum; 20 ml

Ingredients

5/6 fl oz

Jamaican-style aged blended rum with funk

1/6 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

2 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

5/6 fl oz

Jamaican-style aged blended rum with funk

2/3 fl oz

Clear apple juice (not cloudy)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

POUR first half of the rum, sugar syrup and bitters into glass.

Add two ice cubes and STIR.

Add rest of rum, another couple of ice cubes and STIR again.

Fill glass with ice and STIR again.

FLOAT apple juice.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Treacle No.1 contains 126 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
21.12% alc./vol. (42.24° proof)
16 grams of pure alcohol

History

This twist on the Old-Fashioned was created by Dick Bradsell in 1990s London. Rather than use a stirring glass, Dick made this cocktail directly in the glass the cocktail's served in, adding ingredients and cubes of ice one-after-another, stirring between editions. The apple juice Dick used is the cheap clear stuff rather than the 'posh' pressed cloudy apple juice. In this cocktail, cheap is best.

The Treacle
I heard the story of the British apple farming industry's demise. And how they make concentrated/carton apple juice. The clear stuff. And I really like rum and Myers is much underrated. It's great in cocktails.

Make like an old fashioned (it's an old fashioned made with a little sugar, Myers rum and a splash of apple juice with a lemon twist),

Into an old fashioned glass
1 barspoon cane sugar syrup
2 dashes of Angostura
Stir with 1 cube of ice
Add 25mls Myers rum
1 cube ice and stir
And two cubes ice stir
25mls Myers and stir
1 ice cube stir
20mls concentrated apple juice (the cheap clear stuff)
Garnish a lemon twist (or two)

Dick Bradsell, Dicktales, 2022

Comments & Discussion

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Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

Excellent with Myers's, apple juice the clear stuff and Angostura.♥︎

Deric Kruse 1y

first recipe I 'tried' from this site ... only had Sailor Jerry's spiced rum, but as a good Canadian in the winter I have unfiltered apple juice(we call it cider) on hand. was delicious. will do again. probably with better rum though, lol

Peter M Premium Member 2y

I really enjoyed this. Smith & Cross is the star of the show, but the sugar syrup and apple juice help take some of the edge off and temper some of the stranger notes. Bitters add a bit of complexity, but it's subtle. Probably a great option for introducing someone to S & C?

Laurie Cavanaugh 2y

We live in the Boston area, so we will have to have one of these (Cocktail of the Day) to commemorate the anniversary of the Molasses Flood on January 15th, for sure!

Alexandre Lockfeld 3y

I made it differently due to ingredients on hand. Wray & Nephew Overproof Jamaican rum, unsweetened applesauce, Angostura bitters - delicious. But I don’t understand : recipe calls for unsweetened cloudy apple juice, but History section says “cheap is best”, so should one use cheap clear sweetened apple juice??