Drink · 5 min · 1 coupe
Rum daisy
Daisy bones: rum, citrus, orange liqueur. Soda if you want it long.
The sheet · 1 coupe · 5 min
easyWhy tonight. Daisy bones: rum, citrus, orange liqueur. Soda if you want it long.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- rum
- lemon
- cointreau
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: soda.
Method
- 2 oz aged rum, ¾ oz lemon, ¾ oz Cointreau. Shake hard, strain up.
- The daisy template is spirit, citrus and orange liqueur — a margarita is the tequila one, a Sidecar the brandy one, and this is the rum one.
- Cointreau is both the sweetener and the orange, so do not add syrup as well.
- Taste and adjust the lemon, never the rum. Fruit varies; the bottle does not.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rum
- The widest spirit on the shelf.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- cointreau
- Clean bitter orange with real sweetness behind it, so it does two jobs in a sour and lets you use less syrup.
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.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares rum, cointreau, lemon
Between the Sheets
Sidecar cousin with rum in the split. Shake hard, small glass.
Shares cointreau, lemon
Corpse Reviver No. 2
Gin, Cointreau, Lillet and lemon in equal parts, with an absinthe rinse. It is a brunch drink and it is dangerously easy.
Shares rum, lemon
Honey rum sour
Honey syrup instead of sugar, which suits aged rum better than it suits almost anything else.
Shares cointreau, lemon
Sidecar
Cognac, orange liqueur, lemon. The proportions are argued over endlessly; start equal and pull the liqueur back if it is cloying.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.