Knickerbocker

Name: Knickerbocker
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Aged Rum; 15 ml Orange Curaçao; 15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice; 10 ml Raspberry Syrup; Fresh Berries; Lemon Wheel

Printed in Jerry Thomas's Bar-Tender's Guide in 1862, making it one of the earliest recorded rum mixed drinks.

Ingredients

Aged Rum60 ml

Orange Curaçao15 ml

Fresh Lemon Juice15 ml

Raspberry Syrup10 ml

Fresh Berries

Lemon Wheel

Glassware

Old-fashioned glass

Chilled.

Method

1
Fill an old-fashioned glass with crushed ice.
2
Combine the aged rum, orange curaçao, lemon juice and raspberry syrup in a shaker.
3
Add ice and shake hard for 10 seconds.
4
Strain over the crushed ice and churn briefly with a bar spoon.
5
Top with more crushed ice and garnish with fresh berries and a lemon wheel.

From the Bartender

Printed in Jerry Thomas's Bar-Tender's Guide in 1862, making it one of the earliest recorded rum mixed drinks. It anticipates the tiki template — rum, citrus, curaçao, syrup, crushed ice — by roughly seventy years.

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