Dominican Mule drink with sorrel
Equipment
- copper cup
Ingredients
- 2½ oz Your favorite Dominican rum If you don't have Dominican rum, you can use any other Caribbean rum—spice rum is even better.
- 3 oz sorrel drink with a high concentration of ginger The sorrel drink should also contain cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon
- ½ oz lime juice
- ½ oz Sugar cane syrup This is often known as simple syrup. You can also use honey
Garnish
- 1 sprig mint
- 1 slice lime
- 1 candied sorrel flower
- 1 Stick of cinnamon
Instructions
- Make you sorrel drink ahead of time by boiling water with crushed ginger, cinnamon sticks, cloves and grated nutmeg. Add your sorrel flower—dry or fresh to the mixture and let it sit for a few hours. Sweeten with your favorite sweetener.
- Add lime juice, sugar can syrup and rum to the copper cup and stir.
- Add crushed ice then top with sorrel
- Add garnishes
- Enjoy
Notes
Since you'r making this for a cocktail with ice, you may want to make sure that the sugar level is just right for the sorrel when you compensate for the ice. Keep in mind, the simple syrup will make it a little sweeter.
The key is the ginger in the sorrel. Make sure that it's extra spicy, just how we do it in Dominica, so that the singer will com through against the backdrop of the lime juice.