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Homemade Orgeat Syrup Recipe
Mai tai recipes call for a seldom-employed artificial almond syrup called orgeat, or orzata, depending on whether you’re buying the faux-French version or the faux-Italian one The problem is that faux-ness Though orgeat is conceptually tethered to tiki, its twisted history predates tiki’s by a long stretch
blanched almonds, sugar, orange flower water, almond extract
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Mai Tai Recipe
There are raging debates about the invention of and the proper recipe for this drink among tiki connoisseurs The more accepted versions are granted to Victor J Bergeron, the irascible, wooden-legged “Trader Vic,” from his eponymous restaurant bar in Oakland, Calif., in the ’40s
orgeat syrup, rum, gold rum, orange, juice
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Outcast of the Islands Recipe
Does a cocktail have to include rum in order to be considered a tiki drink No — gin will do just fine, too Jeff Berry created this for Beachbum Berry’s Latitude 29 in New Orleans, and it has become one of its most popular menu items
gin, lime juice, ginger liqueur, cinnamon, orgeat syrup, herbsaint, ginger beer
