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Big Bamboo (or Big Bamboo Love Song)
1 oz to 2 oz overproof rum, 1 oz light rum, 1/2 oz triple sec, 1 oz pineapple
juice, 1 oz orange juice, 1 oz lime juice, 3/4 oz syrup (fruit).
1) Combine ingredients in shaker
2) Shake
3) Pour into highball glass over ice
----------------------http://www.borntohowl.com/goldie/recipe2/recipe2.htm
"Be sure to accompany this drink with music from a low-key steel drum band and
"lotsa lovin." Like the song goes, "Well, I ask my lady what should I do to
make she happy, to make love true." She said, "The only thing I want from you
is a little piece of the big bamboo."
Big Bamboo
2 oz. light rum
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
1/2 oz. grenadine syrup
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1 oz. fresh orange juice
Mint sprigs for garnish
Combine all ingredients except garnish in a bar shaker filled with ice.
Strain into a glass filled with lots of cracked ice. Garnish with mint sprigs.
This is one of my favorite drinks from Tropic Cooking by Joyce Lafray Young.
Look for a copy at Barnes and Noble bookstore. Originally published by Ten
Speed Press in Berkeley, CA.