Swizzles
Queen's Park Swizzle
Made with classic simple syrup · Queen's Park Hotel, Port of Spain, 1920
- collins
- crushed
- swizzle
Queen's Park Swizzle
- 2 oz60 ml Demerara rum
- 1 oz30 ml fresh lime juice
- 1 oz30 ml simple syrup (1:1)
- 88 fresh mint leaves
- 4 dashes4 dashes Angostura bitters (more to taste)
- Press the mint leaves gently with the syrup and lime juice in the bottom of a Collins glass.
- Add the rum and fill the glass with crushed ice.
- Swizzle with a swizzle stick or barspoon until the outside of the glass frosts.
- Top up with more crushed ice, dash the bitters over the top, and garnish with a mint sprig.
Garnish: mint sprig
The syrup
In this recipe
Classic Simple Syrup1 oz30 ml
Simple syrup is equal parts sugar and water, heated just until the sugar dissolves.
As printed: 1 oz simple syrup (1:1) (Punch, VinePair); Trader Vic 1946: 1/2 oz simple syrup
Or use
Demerara Syrup¾ oz22 ml
Demerara syrup is demerara sugar dissolved in water, usually rich: 2 parts sugar to 1 part water by weight.
Ours is 2:1: 1 oz 1:1 ≈ 2/3 oz 2:1, so use a scant 3/4 oz.
As printed: Angostura: 1 oz Demerara simple syrup (Angostura's own demerara syrup is 1:1)
Or use
Rich Simple Syrup (2:1)¾ oz22 ml
Rich simple syrup is two parts sugar to one part water by weight: 400 g sugar dissolved in 200 ml hot water.
1 oz 1:1 ≈ 2/3 oz 2:1, so use a scant 3/4 oz.
As printed: 1 oz simple syrup (1:1)
Or use
Mint Simple Syrup1 oz30 ml
Mint simple syrup is 1:1 sugar syrup flavored with fresh spearmint.
Our 1:1 mint syrup replaces both the simple syrup and the muddled mint. Keep a few leaves in the glass and garnish with a sprig.
As printed: 1 oz simple syrup plus muddled mint leaves
Where it comes from
The drink is credited to the bar of the Queen's Park Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and is usually dated to the 1920s. Trader Vic printed a recipe in 1946 and praised it highly, and Angostura now promotes it as Trinidad and Tobago's national drink.
Source: Trader Vic's Book of Food and Drink by Victor J. Bergeron (Trader Vic) (1946).
Checked against: Punch – Queen's Park Swizzle · VinePair – Queen's Park Swizzle · Angostura – The Queen's Park Swizzle · Cocktail Kingdom Library – Swizzle (Queen's Park Swizzle) · Tuxedo No.2 – Queens Park Swizzle · Wikipedia – Queen's Park Swizzle (history only)
Gear for this drink
OXO SteeL Angled Measuring Jigger
OXO SteeL Muddler
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