Recommended Difford's Guide modern web export by Difford's Guide (2018) — Difford's Guide modern source record
| 120 ml | Scotch whisky — {"raw_name": "Scotch whisky", "raw_measure": "120 ml Scotch whisky", "parse_status": "parsed", "mapping_status": "exact_existing"} | base |
| 120 ml | boiling water — {"raw_name": "Boiling water", "raw_measure": "120 ml Boiling water", "parse_status": "parsed", "mapping_status": "exact_existing"} | dilution |
| 1 barspoon | powdered sugar — {"raw_name": "Powdered sugar", "raw_measure": "1 barspoon Powdered sugar", "parse_status": "parsed", "mapping_status": "exact_existing"} | sweetener |
- Select and pre-heat a SNIFTER/BRANDY BALLOON GLASS.
- WARNING - Igniting alcohol is extremely dangerous, so take great care, and please practice with water first to perfect your method. Stand on a non-flammable floor and have help and suitable fire-fighting equipment nearby.
- This recipe makes two cocktails.
- Prepare garnish of two lemon zest twists.
- Preheat a pair of large silver-plated tankards (blazer mugs) with handles with boiling water and pre-warm the whisky by standing the bottle in hot water.
- POUR the whisky into one tankard and fresh boiling water into the other.
- IGNITE the whisky using a long match and while still blazing pour the whisky into the other tankard.
- THROW the flaming mixture from one tankard to the other. (The foolhardy increase the distance between the tankards as they pour, thus creating a spectacular long blue flame between the two.)
- EXTINGUISH flame by covering flaming tankard with base of the other tankard.
- POUR into glasses and sweeten to taste by stirring in powdered sugar.
- EXPRESS a lemon zest over each cocktail and use as garnish.
Garnish: Prepare garnish of two lemon zest twists. EXPRESS a lemon zest over each cocktail and use as garnish.
Ice: ice
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Modern provenance preserved separately; do not merge with historical recipes on name alone.