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CHOW: Recipes: Pegu Club Cocktail

Pegu Club Cocktail Recipe

From: Field Guide to Cocktails , by
Makes: 1 drink

With gin, bitters, and blue curaçao.

INGREDIENTS
  • 2 ounces gin
  • 1/2 ounce blue curaçao
  • 2 dashes of angostura bitters
  • 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
  • Twist of lime peel
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Shake the gin, blue curaçao, bitters, and lime juice with ice; then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lime peel.

This recipe, while from a trusted source, may not have been tested by the CHOW food team.
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  • Bless your heart, Sara! The dollar is in the mail.

  • Bless your heart! The dollar is in the mail.

  • I think it has a lovely color, personally.

  • My original intention was giving everyone in the world a free copy, but (alas!) as I was only given 10 free copies, I was not even able act like the Gideons and place one in hotel rooms everywhere. If you are ever at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Western Mass, however, I will gladly give all chowhounds a cocktail on the house.

  • Rob -
    You should send free copies to those people (whom you did not pay) who found your glaring error, take the payment from your editors, and PLEASE get this page redone before someone else like me comes along and makes a damn blue cocktail!

    Thanks to the chowhounds who caught this "editorial error"!!! Loved the "fool" statement.

  • Sorry, gang. That was an editorial mistake. When I wrote the book, I never specified which curaçao. The editors assumed blue and shot a photograph as such. Thanks to a pressured deadline, I did not see the mistake until the book was off to the printer. Fortunately, it is only one of two errors I have caught so far.

    Mortifingly yours,
    Rob Chirico

  • JK is 1000% right about the proper Pegu club. I am all for riffing classic recipes with new ingredients, but this is just a travesty.

  • It's orange curacao, you fool. The drink is supposed to be sort of coral in color from the bitters. And 1 teaspoon of lime juice? How are you supposed to taste that? Bump the curacao up to 3/4 ounce and the lime to 1/2 ounce, you'll have a better cocktail. If it's a really, really hot day (like one you would experience in Burma, where the Pegu was created), drop the curacao to 1/2 ounce and bump...+READ

    It's orange curacao, you fool. The drink is supposed to be sort of coral in color from the bitters. And 1 teaspoon of lime juice? How are you supposed to taste that? Bump the curacao up to 3/4 ounce and the lime to 1/2 ounce, you'll have a better cocktail. If it's a really, really hot day (like one you would experience in Burma, where the Pegu was created), drop the curacao to 1/2 ounce and bump up the lime to 3/4 ounce. It will be a very bracing drink.-COLLAPSE

  • I'm with you danoots. The very idea! Color is not more important than taste.

    Cointreau please. A tad of sugar syrup for balance. Use decent quality gin. One dash of orange bitters wouldn't go awry.

  • Wow. Blue curaçao? That's a bit of a nasty 1980s Miami-Vice twist on a 1920s classic cocktail. I use cointreau in my pegu's, but if I were to use a curaçao, it'd be a high-quality orange curaçao.