Hurricane with a dried orange wheel.
The Hurricane is New Orleans in a tall glass, named after the lamp it was first served in, not the weather. Two kinds of rum, passionfruit, orange, lime. It's big, fruity, and unapologetic, the drink you make when subtlety has left the building. Done right, it's balanced rather than sweet.
The dried orange crowns it and gives the whole loud thing a clean edge. A fresh slice would slump into the crushed ice and go soft in minutes.
What you'll need
- 45ml dark rum
- 45ml white rum
- 30ml fresh orange juice
- 20ml fresh lime juice
- 30ml passionfruit syrup
- 1 dried orange wheel
- Crushed ice
How to make it
- Add both rums, the orange juice, lime juice, and passionfruit syrup to a shaker with a scoop of ice.
- Shake hard for 8 seconds to chill and combine.
- Fill a tall hurricane or highball glass with crushed ice.
- Pour the drink unstrained over the ice and top with a little more crushed ice to mound it.
- Crown it with a dried orange wheel on top of the ice.
Why dried beats fresh here
This is a crushed-ice drink, and crushed ice melts fast and floods anything sitting on it. A fresh orange slice parked on top waterlogs, slides, and goes pale and soft before you're halfway down the glass.
A dried wheel is light enough to ride the ice mound and dry enough to keep its colour and shape to the end. It gives the orange aroma the drink wants without adding a drop of extra water to a glass that's already racing the melt.
Use the Orange jar, about 25 wheels, enough to crown a whole summer of tall drinks.