Name: Banana Shadow
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 15 ml Palo cortado sherry; 7.5 ml Banana liqueur; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 12 drop Cardamom bitters

Banana Shadow
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lustau Palo Cortado Península Sherry chilled
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
12 drop	Bob's Cardamom bitters

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of dehydrated lime slice wheel.

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with dehydrated lime wheel.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Palo cortado sherry - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Your choice of rum may be what makes/breaks this banana and sherry-flavoured cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2019 by Christine Wiseman at Broken Shaker in Los Angeles, California. (Originally based on Magdalena Guatemalan Rum.)

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Nutrition:

One serving of Banana Shadow contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
22.29% alc./vol. (44.58° proof)
18 grams of pure alcohol

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Peter Andersson

13th March at 07:49

With Havana Club 7 y/o, Scrappy's Bitters Cardamom and demerara syrup (2:1), I did find this a bit on the sweet side and cardamom heavy. Next time I will dial up the sherry and down the syrup and bitters.

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