Challenge #6: Caribbean: Caribbean Drinks

[miss_s_b]

Sorry if any of you are tee-total...

Rum was invented in the Caribbean, and thus a huge number of Caribbean cocktails are rum-based. I'm not going to rehash all those; we all know them. What I have discovered from actually knowing some people of Caribbean extraction is that most of them are inordinately fond of gin. Therefore here are two (count 'em) Caribbean drink recipes for your delectation:

1, Gully Wash

This is not a drink for the lactose intolerant, and I find it a bit sickly, but it IS very traditionally Caribbean

• Take a tall glass


• quarter fill the glass with gin, top it to half full with coconut juice, and stir


• fill to the top with chilled condensed milk, stir again


• sprinkle some fresh finely ground nutmeg on the top

You can kind of approximate the effect of this by drinking Malibu and milk mixed together - which is something that I really love, IF I am in the mood for it. But it's not quite the same as the slightly gloopy ginnyness of a proper Gully Wash.


2, Juice and Gin

Juice and Gin is a staple drink for Jamaicans in particular. This is how I make it; your actual Caribbean folks might differ. I like it VERY sharp; wussier people than me might want to add some sugar syrup to the juice mix

• Obtain a litre carton of pink grapefruit juice, some limes, and a good gin


• Juice and zest several (but not all) of the limes and mix the juice and zest with the pink grapefruit juice in a jug. For a 1 litre carton of juice you want at least 6 limes.


• Add gin to the jug - you want about one third gin to two thirds juice


• Get a tall glass and fill it with chunky ice cubes. Add a wedge of lime


• pour your juice and gin cocktail into the glass and drink slowly, especially if you've used Blackwood's Special Reserve 60% gin as I tend to

I've kind of cheated a little bit because I haven't actually made either of these yet today; however, I promise I shall have some juice and gin tonight to make up for it.