Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Recreating Sasha Pixlee's Errol Flynn Fizz

I recently discovered a cocktail PodCast from a gentleman named Sasha Pixlee. Sasha calls his Podcast, "Sasha's Den of Iniquity," (which sounds a bit more like a BDSM dungeon than a name of a cocktail show.) I really enjoy Pixlee's style. He seems to have a dry wit, and a no-nonsense attitude, that comes across in his only-slightly vulgar delivery.

His very first episode featured fizzy drinks, which was a perfect topic for summer. Of course, the Gin & Tonic opened up the show, and then he moved on to some introductions of the Hemingway Code Hero, French 75, and something he invented, the Errol Flynn Fizz.
Now, I'm a sucker for cocktails with egg whites in them. There is something very appealing to the textural mouth-feel you can achieve with an egg in a drink. So, I knew this was something I needed to try...

Errol Flynn Fizz:
1-1/2 oz rum
3/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz falernum
1/4 oz grenadine
1 egg white
soda water

Dry shake (shake without ice) the rum, lime, falernum, grenadine, and egg white. Add ice and shake again to chill the drink. Strain it into a chilled champagne flute and top with cold soda water. Garnish with lime and whatever other tropical fruits you feel like."

Overall, this is a pleasing drink, though it could probably use some tweaking. I used home-made Grenadine, instead of that fluorescent-red-citric-acid-corn-syrup-industrial-waste that comes in a bottle, so the drink turned out the palest color of pink. Just a bit more color would make this drink more appealing. Hmmm.. Hibiscus grenadine? And one egg white for the proportion of ingredients is overkill. You could easily double the liquid ingredients for one egg white. The club soda adds it's own foam as well.
All in all, I would certainly serve this at a backyard summer party, or at a ladies get together.
Or if the ghost of Errol Flynn visited me.
Which he might.
I followed up the EFF with two Mai Tai's.

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