Rock You Like A Hurricane

Hallo, hallo.
Laissez les bons temps rouler.



The Hurricane is the most famous cocktail in New Orleans.
Invented at Pat O'Brien's bar on Bourbon Street in the 1940's.
They had boat loads of rum and needed to get shot of it, and so a wee man fiddled about with some rum and left over juice he had lying around and the limes he had to prevent scurvy. Made a few stinkers, got pished, then came up with the fruity, sweet concoction we have today. (This is my interpretation of events-may not be strictly true). 

I had a Hurricane in a plastic cup  from Laffite's Blacksmith shop In New Orleans (The oldest bar in the US apparently). Don't go there. The bar staff are really rude and the toilets are manky. The Hurricane was pretty strong though. It made the Vampire walking tour much more fun. When our guide asked us what the first settlers of New Orleans were missing? I piped up in my broadest Glaswegian accent "WIMMIN"!. I got a laugh.

There are so many recipes for a Hurricane cocktail that it's difficult to know which is the right one. So here is my closest guess.

Hurricane cocktail serves 2

You need two big tall glasses and crap loads of ice

2 fl oz light rum
2 floz dark rum
6oz orange juice
6oz passion fruit juice or pineapple if you can't get passion fruit juice
1oz grenadine
juice one lime
2 slices of orange
2 cocktail cherries

Fill your glasses with loads of ice, pour half of the rest of the ingredients into each glass, squeeze the juice of half a lime into each glass. Top with a slice of orange and a cherry. Stick in a swizzle stick and mix it all about. Put in more rum, stick on some tacky plastic beads, grope your friends and pretend you're on Bourbon Street.