At lunchtime today, I offered my mom a rum drink. I've only recently figured out what my mother's mixed-drink tastes are, and so I endeavored to make her a cocktail that she wouldn't hate. (A tall order, I've found.) So I made up a cocktail which will henceforth be called:
Mid-day in Georgia
3/4 oz light rum (Bacardi)
3/4 oz amber rum (Flor de Caña 7 year)
1/2 oz Jamaica rum (Myers)
1/4 peach, sliced
1/4 oz demarara syrup
1 dash Angostura bitters
2 dashes Fee Brothers' peach bitters
~1/8 oz homemade grenadine
Muddle peach slices with all ingredients except grenadine. Shake with ice. Double strain into a cocktail glass, and anoint the inside of the rim with a line of grenadine. Garnish with a slice of peach.
Perfect for a warm summer afternoon.
And Mom loved it. Whew.
