Tropical Dew

 

Photography by: Thomas Wenger

 
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  • Prep:
    5 min

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Serves: 

6 servings

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Ingredients

    For the granite

    • 2 piece lemon juice, 1 lemon for zest
    • 75 millilitres water
    • 60 grams granulated sugar
    • 1 fluid ounce mango liquer paradise is a rum based mango liquer
    • 1 fluid ounce vodka lemon
    • 3 fluid ounce pineapple juice freshly pressed, strained
    • 1/2 fluid ounce Malibu or other coconut liquer

    This cocktail is purely based on what was in my bar on a slow, hot and humid Sunday afternoon. The sort of day when lazing around the house is really all you want to do. A frozen Margarita would have been nice. But while I was looking for the Tequila, this bottle of “Paradise” which had been in my bar for at least a year “fell” into my lab. The result of the following tasting session is this drink.

    February 23, 2011, By Thomas Wenger

    Method

    For the Granite
    1. In a sauce pan, bring the water and sugar to boil, stirring frequently to ensure the sugar is completely dissolved.
    2. Add the lemon zest and lemon juice and simmer for 20 seconds, then pour in a shallow container and freeze immediately.
    To built the drink
    1. Place 3-4 cubes of ice in a shaker and add all alcoholic ingredients as well as the pineapple juice to it. Close shaker firmly and shake well.
    2. Strain into the serving glass.
    3. Shave the granite into a small spoon and serve immediately while dropping the shaved, frozen granite into the drink just as you serve it to the guests.
    Note: You may serve this drink as a full glass version, served in a champagne glass with a full scoop of the lemon granite or as shown in the picture in a small liqueur glass.  

    Tropical Dew / / Thomas Wenger 385