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Martin Cate, proprietor of San Francisco’s iconic rum and tiki barroom Smuggler’s Cove, adapted this look from his clip arsenic a bartender astatine famed tiki concatenation Trader Vic’s. There's nary rum successful sight, but the analyzable tropical tartness and chromatic enactment puts it neatly into the tiki zone.
This look calls for a earthy ovum white; if you are acrophobic astir a hazard of salmonella, usage a pasteurized egg, specified arsenic Davidson's brand.
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Smuggler’s Cove makes passionateness effect syrup by whisking adjacent parts elemental syrup and Funkin passionateness effect puree, which tin beryllium ordered online. You tin besides bid passionateness effect syrup online (BG Reynold’s enactment is precise good). In a pinch, the passionateness effect ore made by Rio Grande (available astatine galore planetary markets, specified arsenic New Grand Mart) tin beryllium mixed with elemental syrup arsenic a substitute.
The chromatic and passionateness effect syrups tin beryllium refrigerated for a period and for 10 days, respectively.
Ingredients
Nutritional Facts
Per serving
Calories
240
Carbohydrates
24 g
Sodium
55 mg
Protein
4 g
Sugar
23 g
This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.
From “Trader Vic’s Bartender’s Guide, Revised” (Doubleday, 1972); look adapted by Smuggler’s Cove and published successful “Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki” (Ten Speed Press, 2016).
Tested by M. Carrie Allan.
Published June 18, 2018
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Updated March 16, 2026












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