New England’s answer to the Daiquiri (as if New England needed one, other than to say “another, please”). This formula hails from Alexander Woolcott, the pudgy, dramatic, croquet-loving, mush-writing, and thoroughly impossible model for Sheridan Whiteside, the Man Who Came to Dinner in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1941 comedy masterpiece of the same name (they made a movie out of it; see it). This used to be built upon a foundation of New England rum, but they don’t make that anymore.
2 ounces dark, heavy rum
1/2 ounce lemon juice
2 teaspoons maple syrup
Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
