Cocktail No 21 Mississippi

The Old-Fasioned went down very quickly and the Mississippi was on the same page and looked very good, so that's the only excuse I will offer for indulging!

I didn't have Rye whisky in so I made this with Scotch. Can' say its made much of a difference. This is from the same family as Daiquiri's - in fact you could describe it as a Daiquiri using 50:50 whisky and rum. It has much less sugar so the tartness of the lemon juice really cuts through. Its cold and raining here, but you can imagine how refreshing this would be on a balmy summer night in the Southern states.

The whisky and rum blend well together. If you know there are there, you can identify their individual tastes, but I think it would take a very refined palate to identify them in a blind tasting.

Recipe

Add 1 measure each of Rye Whisky, White Rum and lemon juice to a shaker with 2 dashes of sugar syrup. Shake on ice and strain into a tumbler. Decorate with a spiral of lemon peel.