Summer Treacle cocktail

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Summer Treacle Cocktail

  • Strong
  • sweet

A sweet, strong cocktail, stirred until cold, served in an old fashioned glass.

Serve in: old fashioned glass

Ingredients

  • 2 ozblack spiced rum
  • 0.5 ozapple juice
  • 0.25 ozrich syrup
  • 2 dashangostura bitters
  • iceoptional
  • 1Orange peeloptional

How to Make a Summer Treacle

Instructions

  1. In an old fashioned filled with ice combine the rum, bitters and sugar syrup.
  2. Stir well until glass is chilled.
  3. Add a little more ice to top up the glass.
  4. Gently pour the apple juice to float on top.

Garnish

Twist the strip of orange peel, spraying its oils around the glass.

The glass

Serve this one in an old fashioned glass. The old fashioned glass or rocks glass is a short tumbler used for serving spirits, such as whisky, neat or with ice cubes. It is also normally used to serve certain cocktails, such as the Old Fashioned, from which it receives its name.

Did you know

The Treacle cocktail is a twist on the Old-Fashioned, created by Dick Bradsell in the 1990s'London. Like the original, it takes a few minutes to make and there are no shortcuts.