Flamingo

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Discerning Drinkers (33 ratings)

Serve in a

Coupe glass
Ingredients:
2 fl oz Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years
1 fl oz Pineapple juice
1/2 fl oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz Monin Grenadine Syrup
4 drop Difford's Daiquiri Bitters
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of thin line of Creole bitters across surface of cocktail &/or pineapple wedge on rim.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
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Strength & taste guide:


Review:

If using packaged pineapple juice (rather than fresh), then it pays to add a couple of muddled wedges of fresh pineapple to the recipe above as this improves both the taste and this pink cocktail's frothy head.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Ted Saucier's 1951 book Bottoms Up where it's credited to The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, USA. The Flamingo Hotel & Casino was opened in 1946 by mobster Bugsy Siegel and his partners as the third hotel on the Strip, where it is now the last surviving casino to have opened before 1950.

FLAMINGO
Courtesy, The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
1 oz. Cuban rum
½ oz. pineapple juice
1 dash grenadine
Juice ½ lime
Mix ingredients in electric mixer with fine
Pour entire contents in saucer champagne and serve with short straws.

Ted Saucier, Bottoms Up, 1951

Nutrition:

One serving of Flamingo contains 210 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 15.7% alc./vol. (31.4° proof)
  • 17.7 grams of pure alcohol
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The founder of Bacardi was a Catalan wine merchant called Facundo Bacardi Massó, who left Spain for Cuba in 1830.

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On this day in 1900, Fernand Pete Petiot was born in Paris, to parents who owned a guesthouse - he would come to fame, correctly or otherwise, as the inventor

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