Bitter Pill Cocktail

PH factor: 9.0

Recipe

Ingredients:

Cocktail

o 1 ½ ounces Mount Gay XO rum

o ½ ounce Fernet~Branca

o ½ ounce Simple Syrup

(see: Syrups etc.)

o ½ ounce fresh lime juice

o 1 egg white

Garnish

o orange twist

Method:

1. Shake cocktail ingredients

without ice.

2. Add ice and shake again to

chill.

3. Strain into an ice-filled Old

Fashioned glass.

4. Garnish with orange twist.

Remarks:

Not as hard to swallow as the

name might suggest. The syrup

and citrus balance the bitterness

of the Fernet~Branca deliciously.

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