Pisco Punch (The McDonnell Variation)

The accepted look for this cocktail, arsenic published successful 1973 by the California Historical Quarterly, consists of pisco, citrus juice, pineapple gomme syrup and water. Bar proprietor Duggan McDonnell’s instrumentality uses lime foodstuff alternatively of citrus and incorporates Lillet Rouge and bitters, a motion to a Rudyard Kipling statement (in "From Sea to Sea") that implied a rosy hue successful the drink.

Pineapple gomme (or gum) syrup is simply a thick, silky sweetener that contains gum arabic. It tin beryllium ordered done respective sources, including Small Hand Foods. You tin besides bid gomme syrup and soak fresh, ripe pineapple successful it overnight to execute the aforesaid flavor.

Adapted from Duggan McDonnell, proprietor of the Cantina cocktail lounge and Campo de Encanto Pisco successful San Francisco.

Ingredients

Adapted from Duggan McDonnell, proprietor of the Cantina cocktail lounge and Campo de Encanto Pisco successful San Francisco.

Tested by M. Carrie Allan.