Welcome Friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark today we're going to do a recipe
out of my new cocktail book that's what
it's called by Mr GF Steele this is the
second edition published in 1934.
um it is signed by the author it is a
very interesting book he calls himself
the compiler and that becomes very
obvious As you move throughout the book
that he has just grabbed recipes from
all over the place compiled them and put
them into the book and he hasn't
attempted in any way shape or form to
standardize the measurements some of
them are given in Parts some of them are
given in ounces some of them are given
in percentages it's all over the map
and he's very light on method most of
the most of the recipes are just a list
of ingredients and today we're going to
do one called fluffy Ruffles
um because I think fluffy Ruffles is
kind of funny so it is a vermouth and
rum cocktail he calls specifically for
Bacardi rum doesn't say whether it's
white label or Gold Label or aged or
anything like that so I'm assuming that
he wanted the Bacardi Blanc Bacardi
white Bacardi superior and just for
absolute fun I'm going to use LeBlanc
kachasa
um from Bacardi it's a Bacardi brand
anyway so LeBlanc cachasa and just see
how they're different so it's uh it's
half and half one to one I'm going to
say Let's do an ounce and a half of each
so I have red vermouth Italian vermouth
sweet vermouth whatever you want to call
it
and so we'll do one and a half ounces of
that
oh
still spilling and this one will get the
Bacardi
and this one gets the kachasa
and then we ice
okay
Bacardi superior
and leblancasa
hey Glenn visuals hi friends
wow this looks like a very very simple
drink very simple drink in regards to
its ingredients two ingredients
um also gets a lemon peel so oh I mean
maybe three ingredients maybe three
ingredients
um so this one is Bacardi superior this
one is LeBlanc kashasa oh I like yeah
we've had it before in rum drinks and it
actually works really well okay let's
give it a go
oh that's pretty nice yeah
hmm
that one's also very nice yes if you
made me choose I would actually choose
this one I was thinking the same thing
you know so that and that just sort of
that just sort of goes along with you
know you switch out one you switch out
the ingredients and something that works
really well in one cocktail that you
think is the best
in the next cocktail
it's okay it isn't it's just okay right
and something that I think of as
I don't want to say bottom shelf but it
is a mass Market it is available to
everyone yes which is great yes I mean
worldwide everyone worldwide can get
that
brand of rum and make this drink and
make that drink
um but often I find that smaller
they have the opportunity to have a
different range of flavors flavors yeah
they haven't established their flavor
especially if they're new right they're
just establishing their flavors so I
mean that is that is time in timeout
always the same and this the LeBlanc
kashasa is the same in in that way it is
a worldwide Global brand available to
everybody
that I prefer in in the last rum drink
that we used it in but in this rum drink
I prefer the rum oh they're good but I
really do think this one's a little
smoother yep yep who knew two
ingredients what three ingredients if
you include the lemon peel and then
you know
switch out the vermouth I mean if you
put in a martini and Rossi vermouth or a
shinzano vermouth or you know kayak
vermouth or
carpano classical vermouth or what else
have I got over there I mean I've got
probably a dozen different and those are
just the ones we haven't opened yet
because this is the one in the fridge
padro and Company kayak Rouge Gorge
yeah
this is it and this is the fun thing
with just two ingredients you could just
do so many like you could spend a whole
year and just do variation of course
you'd spend a fortune it's fine it would
be
that being said if you had friends who
all had different types of vermouth or
different types of rum you could easily
do this forever
the mathematical calculations of all of
the permutations and it's just I could
do the math okay so you know I could do
that Julie could do the math I'm not I'm
not interested in that I'm just going to
say there's a bucket load
there's a big a big bucket load of
variation just by changing out one of
the ingredients and then if you started
three of a three really a two ingredient
thing if assuming you keep the lemon the
same
who knew that a cocktail called fluffy
Ruffles could be so complicated
thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
this one is LeBron kashasa oh I like
yeah we've had it before in rum drinks
and it actually works really well okay
let's give it a go
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