Mai Tai

• 1 ounce light rum (I had great results with Banks 5 Island)
• 1 ounce gold rum (Appletons Estate Reserve, Zacapa, Clement V.S.O.P., El Dorado 12-year)
• 1/2 ounce orgeat syrup (see recipe)
• 1/2 ounce orange Curacao or Cointreau
• Juice of 1 lime.

1. Combine ingredients in a shaker with crushed or cracked ice and shake vigorously.
2. Pour, with shaken ice, into a double old-fashioned glass and garnish with the spent lime shell and a sprig of fresh mint.
3. Some, who live large and dangerously, like to float an extra 1/2 ounce of dark rum atop it.

light rum, gold rum, syrup, orange curacao, lime

Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015316 (may not work)