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madbakerThis week's Resolution Recipe: (Shortcut) West Indian Rum Punch.
3 chai tea bags (preferably Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice)
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups pink grapefruit juice
1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
1 3/4 cups dark rum
1/3 cup (real) grenadine
Steep tea bags in 1 cup boiling water with sugar for 15 minutes, then cool. This makes two batches' worth of tea syrup.
In a large ice-filled pitcher, combine 1/2 cup tea syrup and the remaining ingredients. Stir well.
To serve, pour in (crushed) ice-filled glasses. Garnish with a (real) maraschino cherry.
What worked: This was certainly easy and a good shortcut for infusing spices into a syrup. Reasonably good on a warm day.
What didn't: When we drank half of the batch in glasses filled with ice cubes, I wasn't getting any of the spice, just overly sweet juice - which is not my choice of tiki drink. I ended up stirring in a big batch of bitters to de-sweeten, and even then it wasn't any better than meh.
The next day we drank the remainder but filled the glasses with crushed ice instead. Oddly enough we could now taste the spice, and it wasn't as sweet. Still not my first choice of drink but definitely more pleasant and drinkable.
Lesson: drinks are sometimes calibrated to ice choice and it can matter.
Will I make it again? Meh. Maybe if we're doing tiki drinks and it's a hot day (although I'd rather have a real daiquiri...)
3 chai tea bags (preferably Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice)
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups pink grapefruit juice
1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
1 3/4 cups dark rum
1/3 cup (real) grenadine
Steep tea bags in 1 cup boiling water with sugar for 15 minutes, then cool. This makes two batches' worth of tea syrup.
In a large ice-filled pitcher, combine 1/2 cup tea syrup and the remaining ingredients. Stir well.
To serve, pour in (crushed) ice-filled glasses. Garnish with a (real) maraschino cherry.
What worked: This was certainly easy and a good shortcut for infusing spices into a syrup. Reasonably good on a warm day.
What didn't: When we drank half of the batch in glasses filled with ice cubes, I wasn't getting any of the spice, just overly sweet juice - which is not my choice of tiki drink. I ended up stirring in a big batch of bitters to de-sweeten, and even then it wasn't any better than meh.
The next day we drank the remainder but filled the glasses with crushed ice instead. Oddly enough we could now taste the spice, and it wasn't as sweet. Still not my first choice of drink but definitely more pleasant and drinkable.
Lesson: drinks are sometimes calibrated to ice choice and it can matter.
Will I make it again? Meh. Maybe if we're doing tiki drinks and it's a hot day (although I'd rather have a real daiquiri...)
