The Spirits

The Spirits

The Spirits #14: The Old Cuban

~ Goodbye to 2020 ~ Cold Moon ~ Afresh afresh afresh ~ 'You fuck up the kitchen you do the dishes' ~ 10:15 to Leeds ~

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Richard Godwin
Dec 31, 2020
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~ THE OLD CUBAN ~

20ml golden sugar syrup
20ml lime juice
5-6 mint leaves
50ml dark rum
Dash Angostura bitters
~75ml sparkling wine

Freeze your glassware (flute, coupe, regular wine glass, all good). Now take your shaker. (Hi by the way! Everyone have good Christmases?) In the bottom of the shaker, muddle your sugar syrup, lime and mint. Then introduce the rum…

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