The name catches your eye but sadly, today’s cocktail has a cheesy story behind it. Sort of. I have jury duty today and I needed something that 1.) wasn’t the Scofflaw, previously featured and 2.) trashy, difficult, and more effort than it’s worth (like the DC court system! Hah! OK, that was a little…lame). The Crime of Passion fit nicely.
Crime of Passion
- 1 oz dark rum
- 1 oz passion fruit juice
- 2 tbsp vanilla ice cream
- 1/3 oz raspberry syrup
- 3 oz cream soda
Blend the above ingredients and pour into glass and fill with cream soda. Garnish with a cherry. Maybe you could tell simply by the ingredients, maybe not, but this tastes like something you’d get at UNO’s in Bethesda while waiting for your deep dish pizza and fried potato skins (do they offer those at UNO’s?): sweet, cheap, easy to make and probably costs you $10. Hell, you might even get a souvenir glass out of it. If this were Red Lobster you’d be going home with some lobster beads.
A nice variation that I have yet to try is substituting egg white for the ice cream, raspberry liqueur for the syrup and club soda for the cream soda. This would cut down on the sweetness, bringing out the flavors of the rum and passion fruit, maintaining some creaminess/fizz while adding some more alcohol with the liqueur. I hope jury duty ends soon so I can try this variation…because honestly, the Crime of Passion is simply not doing it for me.
Okay, Svet, the cocktail woman really is the limit. Your meaning should be clear. There is no need to elaborate on the sorrow and disappointment. Just cut that dodo off cold. Agreed? Agreed.
May 12, 2009 at 4:24 pm