If made properly the Hurricane will be tart and refreshing and transport you to
a tropical beach immediately.
So the story of the Hurricane, not the Bob Dylan song, the cocktail,
is pretty well accepted. So it was born in New Orleans
in the 1940s and it came out of a surplus of rum.
So basically World War II meant that European spirits were hard to come by
so some enterprising booze reps would make buying Scotch and Cognac dependant
on the bar owners also taking heaps of readily available rum off their hands.
Originally a simple combination of citrus, passionfruit and rum
and lots of it, it gets its name from the signature hurricane glassware it was
served in. This cocktail though is probably one of
the most misunderstood, it just became jumbled up with sort
of bad generic tiki drinks in the 80s was a bad time for a lot of cocktails.
Long story short it's often served with at least two more ingredients than
necessary. So things like sweet and sour mix and
bright red cordial, long life orange juice, I'm kind of just
getting a headache thinking about it. So I prefer to think of it more as just a
rum sour with a tropical pop of passion fruit and then obviously that iconic
serve to keep it fun. That said it is pretty boozy so if you'd
like to lengthen it out then I'd say to stick to
about 30mls or one ounce of either orange juice
only if you have fresh though or you can squeeze fresh or some pineapple juice.
Long life is definitely okay and you probably just want to bump up the lemon
juice a little make sure it's all balanced out
and if you do have a sweeter tooth then a bar spoon of a good quality
grenadine certainly won't go amiss.
So first we're just going to squeeze some fresh lemon juice,
being thrifty I've used this one for a twist
for another drink.
A good juicy one.
And then we'll get our garnish ready as well you can obviously
use cocktail cherries we just happen to have some nice fresh
cherries here, which I thought would be a lovely addition.
So just skewer one of them and your orange wedge.
You really don't have to be prescriptive about this even the bar where the drink
was invented has changed up their garnish since kind
of the original day so whatever you have in your fridge that
you reckon is going to look pretty.
So we're going to go 40 mils of light rum
I'm using Pampero Blanco it's just really
nice and kind of fruity heaps of tropical fruit in there already
which obviously is going to add to the drink.
I'm going 40 mils the original recipe does actually call for two full shots so
you know if you want to make a night of it then
absolutely go for it just trying to be responsible here.
Any good quality light rum or white rum is going to work for you.
And then the same amount, so 40 ml of your dark rum
I'm using Plantation original dark it's uh it's one of my favorite cocktail rums
you see it heaps in bars it's really kind of rich and flavorful without being
overpowering um it still balances quite nicely with with other kind of rums and
flavors, it does go through a second aging in
cognac barrels so I find it just kind of has like a little bit more sort of
structure and depth. Definitely a good buy and it's not super expensive.
We'll do 30 mls of passion fruit syrup this is pretty easy to make
you can just use some tinned passion fruit and some sugar
and just kind of simmer that all up with some water,
I'll pop the recipe in for you and then it's up to yourself if you want
to strain that or not um I have so there's not any little bits because
we're shaking and dumping but also it's quite nice to have some little passion
fruit pieces in there too. Then 30 mls of your fresh lemon juice.
I'm going to fill your shaker with as much ice as you can fit in there,
pop your tins together and shake as hard as you can.
As you can see your tin is all nice and frosty. Pop it open.
Give it a little taste.
It's pretty lethal.
Grab your glass out of the fridge or freezer and then you can just pour straight in
with the rest of it. Because it is such a big glass I've just popped a little bit
of fresh ice in the bottom because probably what you have in here will not
quite fill it all the way up.
And you just need your straw.
Pop in your garnish and there we have a Hurricane.
First of all I do have to thank my sister-in-law Besha,
and her obsession with vintage glassware for this awesome Hurricane glass
and I'm glad that it's finally getting its proper use.
It has had a Pina Colada in it at home but that's actually not one that we've
done yet for you guys so if you reckon that sounds like fun
then definitely drop me a comment below and hit the little notification bell so
that you won't miss it if we do.
I mean passion fruit is just pretty hard to go wrong with.
This is actually quite dangerous, when I first had a little taste I thought that
it was really quite strong um but just with all the ice in there
and everything it and being really cold it's you can
probably drink it quicker than you should.
Yeah, fruity, fresh and fun it's just everything that tiki should be really.
The Hurricane, so now you know.