Hello and welcome to another magical cocktail adventure
I'm Helen and today's cocktail is a Jungle Bird
Now I was going to film out in the garden today
But we are having an abundance of beautiful rain and right at this moment. We're actually in the clouds
So I thought you know what? I'm gonna bring a little bit of the jungle inside
with these beautiful flowers from the garden and
Also, I just popped on a little jungle theme dress for the occasion as well
So the ingredients in the Jungle Bird, there's a few more than last week's we have Campari
We have a dark rum, although today. I had in the cupboard a Spiced Captain Morgan
So I'm going to give that one a go. We're going to use sugar syrup. We're going to use fresh lime juice
These limes aren't from my garden
But they are from a garden up here on the mountain and we're going to use pineapple juice as well
now when I look around and research new cocktail recipes, I
Often find a cocktail has a history behind it. This particular one does have a little bit of history though
It is a slight
mystery to this history
apparently it was invented from by a
barman who used to work in a bar in the Hilton hotel in Kuala Lumper in Malaysia in
1978 they think it was invented. So if you look at that, that's 40 years ago. So we are actually
celebrating the
40th anniversary
Of the Jungle Bird today and we're blessed to have our wonderful
Wonderful friends come and visit myself and my husband Marty our beautiful friends, Laura and Eddie
With us tonight to taste the Jungle Bird also to taste the beautiful morsels of food that I have made
Which I kept in an Asian theme
But let's actually
Make the cocktail. So what I'm using today, I'm just going to use a
Boston shaker you can use a normal shaker
There's no reason for either one and all the ingredients go in first
And then we're going to add ice now have you noticed our new gorgeous ice bucket?
Not quite a Jungle Bird, but a bird none the less. I love it
found it in an op shop and
I had to buy her anyway, so what we're gonna do is 45 mil of our dark rum
so let
measure out 30 mil there
15 there in that goes
Then some Campari's I'm going to do 20 mil of Campari
Actually, I'm gonna be 15 mil because it is it does have a little bitter
Flavor to it. So I'm gonna do slightly less to start with and just see how we go
Balancing it all out then. I'm going to put in 15 mil of sugar syrup
In it goes sugar syrup
15 ml of some lime juice which I squeezed earlier
I'm actually got a
Little tiny bit more of that and 45 mil of our pineapple juice
In that goes it's looking like great color down there
right pineapple juice
Now we're going to put in our ice
And let's not be stingy on the ice for a good shape because it is a very hot muggy
summers subtropical afternoon here on the mountain
And then we're going to shake so here's some more magic for our cocktails
Today a
Big wine goblet, but you could use an old fashioned glass you could use a tall glass
we're going to
Sift that in or actually I have forgotten the ice to put in the glass first
So let's do that let's put in
Today which is perfect for jungle
Can we go give it a nice
Pour in there. It is a beautiful colour
Nice bit of froth happening as well. You might not see that pinky color through the green glass, but it really is beautiful
now
the Jungle Bird
Apparently is also what they call a tiki cocktail so a tiki cocktail is mischievous
So they're a little bit monkey magic mischievous. So you can add you can decorate them as garnish them go to town
I have made a little pineapple wedge with a couple of cherries there. I'm going to place that on the side like so
Then I'm going to use a couple of the pineapple fronds. I was lucky enough to find pineapple that still have a top on
In there go and just to top it off today. I couldn't believe it
I found this amazing little bookmark, which is a bird a jungle bird. So I'm gonna place that there and
Voila, there is our Jungle Bird cocktail
Now for our favorite part of the day the taste test. Oh
That is really refreshing and a real interesting hold on
Mmm actually, it's a really interesting combination of flavors. I really really like it. That's fantastic. So
Thank you so much for watching today. I hope you've enjoyed
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Magical cocktail adventure. That's it from me. I'm Helen the Cocktail Queen of Mount Tamborine. Thank you
So very very much. Mwah
Cheers
Beautiful, oh yeah, beautiful
And I'd like to say a big hello to Freema Nichols in
Wallingford
Pennsylvania, thank you so much for watching Freema. Enjoy your cocktails
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