Pre-Prohibition cocktail.
Why you are pouring this tonight
The Honeysuckle is a pre-Prohibition cocktail. White rum, lemon, honey syrup. Three ingredients. The Bee’s Knees with rum instead of gin and lemon doing the citrus work. A small drink with quiet confidence, the kind you make for somebody when they have just sat down and have not yet said why they came over.
The recipe is almost identical to the Honey Bee, depending on which classic source you read. Both are excellent. The Honeysuckle is the older name; the Honey Bee is the modern menu name. Use a clean white rum (Plantation 3 Stars, Havana Club 3) so the honey can do its work. Real lemon, never the bottled stuff. Shake hard with ice for twelve seconds, double-strain into a chilled coupe, lemon twist over the surface. Pair with roast pork, fruit-and-cheese boards, blue cheese on toast.
What to pour it alongside
Roast pork, blue cheese, fruit-and-cheese boards.
Notes
Almost identical to the Honey Bee, the difference is which classic source you read. Both are excellent.
The recipe
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