Treacle No.1

Serve in

How to make:

1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
3. POUR first half of the rum, sugar syrup and bitters into glass.
4. Add two ice cubes and STIR.
5. Add rest of rum, another couple of ice cubes and STIR again.
6. Fill glass with ice and STIR again.
7. FLOAT apple juice.
8. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Review:

Molasses flavours feature in this Rum Old Fashioned.

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

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Nutrition:

127 calories

Alcohol content:

• 1.1 standard drinks
• 21.11% alc./vol. (42.22° proof)
• 16 grams of pure alcohol