Drink · 5 min · Amounts not specified
Corn 'n' oil
Barbadian: dark rum, a spoon of molasses, lime, bitters. Stir. It should look like oil and taste like lime, not gingerbread.
The sheet · 1 rocks glass · 5 min
easyWhy tonight. Barbadian: dark rum, a spoon of molasses, lime, bitters. Stir. It should look like oil and taste like lime, not gingerbread.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- rum
- molasses
- lime
- angostura
Method
- Two ounces of aged Caribbean rum with a blackstrap float on top. The dark rum sitting on the surface is one story about the name; the other traces it to a line in Deuteronomy. Nobody has settled it.
- Half an ounce of falernum. This is the drink — leave it out and you have rum, lime and bitters with nothing holding them together.
- Half an ounce of lime and a heavy hand with Angostura — six dashes is normal, not a mistake.
- Built over crushed ice and stirred up from the bottom.
- It is Barbadian, bitter, sweet and dark, and it tastes like nothing else on this list.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
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The technique underneath this
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rum
- The widest spirit on the shelf.
- molasses
- Bitter, mineral and dark, and it is what makes brown sugar brown.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- angostura
- Bitters are seasoning for a drink — the salt of the bar.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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