Name: Hollywood
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rum - Light white (charcoal-filtered) 1-3 year old; 10 ml Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed); 5 ml Grenadine/pomegranate syrup; 2.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' 2 sugar to 1 water; 15 ml Pasteurised egg white (or aquafaba)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Dust with freshly grated nutmeg

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
1/3 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
1/6 fl oz	Grenadine/pomegranate syrup (2:1)
1/12 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°brix)
1/2 fl oz	Pasteurised egg white (or aquafaba)
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Review:

This drink is deliciously different. Rum, grapefruit and pomegranate smoothed with egg white and spiced with nutmeg.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's 1930 Swallows : World Drinks and How to Prepare Them.

HOLLYWOOD
Bacardi . . . . . . . . 2/3 jigger
Grapefruit . . . . . . . . 1 spoon
Grenadine . . . . . . . . 1 spoon
Egg . . . . . . . . 1/2 of white
Nutmeg . . . . . . . . to taste
Shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass, grate nutmeg over and serve.
William Boothby, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Hollywood contains 129 calories.

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
18.73% alc./vol. (37.46° proof)
14.5 grams of pure alcohol

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