Maggie Smith

Name: Maggie Smith
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Ingredients: 1 ounce pisco; 1 ounce white rum; 1/2 ounce orange liqueur; 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice; 1/4 ounce orgeat; 1 teaspoon honey simple syrup (see Tip); 1 piece orange peel, for garnishing

Recipe from Joaquín Simó

Adapted by Pete Wells

Published Sept. 27, 2024

Total Time: 5 minutes
Rating: 4(131)
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Joaquín Simó was a bartender at Death & Co in the East Village when he came up with the Maggie Smith, an elaboration on an old drink called Between the Sheets. Maggie Smith’s character in “Evil Under the Sun” offers a Between the Sheets to Hercule Poirot, who asks for cassis or crème de banane instead. He should have taken her up on it. —Pete Wells

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Ingredients

Yield:1 cocktail

1ounce pisco
1ounce white rum
½ounce orange liqueur
¾ounce fresh lime juice
¼ounce orgeat
1teaspoon honey simple syrup (see Tip)
1piece orange peel, for garnishing

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Preparation

Step 1
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake for 10 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass and twist the orange peel over the top, then drop it in.

Tip

To make honey simple syrup, combine 2 parts honey to 1 part hot water.

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Comments

Rhea8 months ago

I am married to Joaquin Simo and I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a fanatic about ice. Specifically, cold draft or fancy clear Japanese ice. This is meant to be shaken with ice until your hands stick to the shaker and you no longer have nerve endings in your fingers. Don’t try to stick your tongue to the shaker.

Ed8 months ago

Orgeat?? What can be used as a substitute that I might actually have in my cabinet?

Steve8 months ago

No ice?

Barb6 months ago

So delicious! Served this at Thanksgiving. It was a hit.

Melissa S7 months ago

Fabulous cocktail! Good use for Pisco Portón and orgeqt!

TiminPS7 months ago

Excellent cocktail! We had a Maggie Smith night where we made these cocktails and watched Murder By Death. What a Dame. Oh, and I finally learned how to pronounce orgeat correctly. Bonus! (I googled it.)

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