The Oldest Mai Tai Recipe Might be the Most Appealing

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Today, we make the oldest printed recipe for the Mai Tai, the version found in "The Commercial Appeal" from 1958. This was not the first printed reference to the Mai Tai, but it is the oldest recipe that we know of right now. The late 1950s was when the Mai Tai really took off. Travelers from Hawaii returned home wanting one of these Mai Tai and then there were the travel writers claiming the Mai Tai as the best drink from Hawaii.

This recipe was apparently given to Mrs. Leone Siedman by a bartender at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. The drink is very much a Mai Tai, with the big difference that it calls for a hefty ounce of lemon juice in addition to 1/2 oz of lime. It's tart, but oh so delicious.

recipes at the bottom of the description

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📖 Episode Chapters 📖
00:00 Introduction
00:22 You should know this....
01:15 Overrated
01:26 Island Mai Tai
04:14 Making the oldest printed Mai Tai
05:34 Drinking the oldest printed Mai Tai
07:49 Slinging that glassware

📝 Recipe 📝
Commercial Appeal Mai Tai
1 oz lemon juice (30 ml)
½ oz lime juice (15 ml)
⅓ oz rock candy syrup (10 ml) (2:1 rich simple syrup)
⅓ oz orgeat (10 ml)
⅓ oz orange curacao (10 ml)
1 oz Puerto Rican rum (30 ml)
1 oz Dark Jamaican rum (30 ml)