Central Park to Lumphini Recipe
A smoky mezcal sour with fig jam, cloudy apple juice and lemon — autumn fruit over smoke, finished with the scent of a torched bay leaf.
- Category: Popular
- Glass: Old fashioned glass
- ABV: 14%
- Difficulty: Medium
Ingredients
- Mezcal45 ml (1.5 oz)
- Cloudy apple juice22 ml (0.7 oz)
- Simple syrup22 ml (0.7 oz)
- Fresh lemon juice22 ml (0.7 oz)
- Fig jam1 tsp
How to Make It
- Stir the fig jam into the mezcal in the shaker to loosen it.
- Add the remaining ingredients and ice.
- Shake hard until well chilled.
- Double-strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass.
- Briefly torch a bay leaf and set it on top.
Garnish
Torched bay leaf
The Story
A contemporary bar drink whose name links two city parks, New York's Central Park and Bangkok's Lumphini; the original steeps figs in the mezcal, here the jam carries the fruit.
The main ingredient here is also a dream symbol: Apple in a dream
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