Scorpion Bowl - How to Make the Famous 1941 Tiki Punch (Smuggler's Cove Version)
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2018
- Here’s how to make the Scorpion Bowl, the classic tiki drink. This party-sized cocktail made with Gold Rum, London Dry Gin, Cognac-style Brandy, Orgeat, Simple Syrup, Lime Juice, Orange Juice, with an Orchid, Mint and an Orange Wheel for garnish. It has evolved from Trader Vic’s original 1940’s recipe, but has remained one of the most popular Tiki creations.
It was certainly in Vic’s top three in terms of popularity, along with the Mai Tai and the Fog Cutter. It was sweetened with one of his favorite exotic ingredients, orgeat, which appeared in his top three drinks as well as the likes of the Trader Vic Punch, Tiki Bowl, Kava Bowl and the Eastern, London and Munich Sours. The Scorpion Bowl appeared on Vic’s menus as early as 1941, along with a drink called “My Kava Bowl”, but the punch has roots in both American and Polynesian drinking traditions that stretch back centuries.
According to David Wondrich, in what is now the US, from about 1670-1850, punch reigned supreme, but by the time of Jerry Thomas, Harry Johnson and the Gilded Age, the cocktail had knocked punch off its throne, and by the time Prohibition rolled around, it was dead in the gutter. Vic, who opened a bar in Oakland right at the end of Prohibition, was already playing around with punches in the early 1940’s and in his 1946 book, he talked about wanting to raise punch from the dead and ward off the bad gris gris of punch’s reputation for behind served to stuffy crowds of people afflicted with Long Island lockjaw.
To help break away from it’s crusty reputation, Vic drew inspiration from the ritual communal drink, prevalent throughout Polynesia, of Kava. Kava is a plant that was central to Polynesian parties, ceremonies and entertaining visiting dignitaries from other tribes.
Vic took the communal aspect of the Kava Bowl ceremony, as a celebratory gathering point, and attempted to reenact that atmosphere in his restaurants by creating shared drinks (don’t call them punches). However, instead of everyone ladling from the bowl into their own cups, Vic had them use straws to all sip from the same bowl, which made for a more intimate, yet playful atmosphere.
Most modern Scorpion Bowls will be garnished with fire. Vic would garnish his with gardenias and that’s a good way to go, but I like creating a bouquet of an orchid in the bed of mint. The orchid, ever since its introduction by Harry Yee in the 50’s has become the universal tiki drink signifier. The mint harkens back to the original recipe that had mint leaves in the punch. The orange wheel acts as an anchor to hold it all together as you drink your way to the bottom of the punch.
Keep in mind, that unlike some modern tiki punches, this one is on the boozy-side. You can definitely taste the gin. In that sense, it feels like it could have been unearthed by David Wondrich from a 19th century handwritten recipe. And while it’s not as wild as something you’d get at Three Dots and a Dash in Chicago, it’s classic and you’ll know why as soon as you taste it. Okole Maluna!
Recipe:
4 oz (120 ml) Gold Cuban Rum
4 oz (120 ml) London Dry Gin
2 oz (60 ml) Brandy
2 oz (60 ml) Orgeat
1.5 oz (45 ml) Simple Syrup
2 oz (60 ml) Lime Juice
4 oz (120 ml) Orange Juice
garnish Orange Wheel, Orchid, Mint (optional)
Stir with ice. Pour into tiki bowl filled with 3 Cups (720 ml) of ice. Add straws and garnish. (Optionally, to simplify the recipe, abandon the Simple Syrup and use 3.5 oz/100 ml of Orgeat for the sweetener.)
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Always love these history lessons! 😀👍🏻
Glad to hear you like the vegetables and not just the dessert. Haha. Cheers!
New DS video in the feed = 🙂. Seeing that it’s 8:29: 🤩. Love your videos, can’t begin to say how much I’ve learned.
Thanks! Glad to hear you dig the history behind the drinks. Cheers!
I love seeing the origins of the drink, the history of its adaptions, and your own adaptions. I always agree with your changes after trying both versions!
Haha. Well, you know what they say, great minds think thoughts.
Yes! What a great drink with amazing presentation! Nice to see a few new bottles as well. Cheers!
Thanks. Glad you dug it.
Love the film clips edited in. TOP NOTCH!!
Thanks! Those clips are fun to find and it's great when I can get them to work into the narrative. Cheers!
I've had the great opportunity of tradtional Tongan Kava! Thanks for the story!
Oh wow! Was it as horrifying as the 19th century Americans described it? No, but seriously, that's awesome. Cheers!
Always a pleasure.
Thanks!
Great drink and video always happy when you make a new one, thank you for doing it cheers
Cheers!
I love how you talk about the recipe and the history
Glad to hear it's worth digging into the backstories of the drinks. Cheers!
AMAZING
Just tried the drink. It was fantastic! Thank you for the video.
Oh great! There are a lot of recipes for this one. But glad you agree about this one.
Loved it!
Cheers!
Simple ... the best amateur cocktails channel on youtube!!
Cheers!
I have made it a few times before using the Tiki Farm Scorpion Bowl and the reaction is always "Whooo" its a sipper for sure..
Haha. Yeah, it's a good one and usually a crowd pleaser. Cheers!
I always look forward to see what gets added to the shaker.
Haha. It's like a mantra...for booze.
I swear this is chef John narrating!
I swear it ain’t. Haha.
Nice shout out to Trader Sam's. I love that tiki bar.
Ha! Yeah, it's a fun one. Cheers!
Always nice to see you in my sub feed.
Cheers!
Great video
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Man your videos are so good. And how do you always have the prettiest flowers and mint all the time XD
Thank you! Glad to hear you dig the garnishes.
I love your videos
Great to hear! Cheers!
It truly is a Tiki Christmas!
I wanna apologize about pestering for this drink. Kinda like the Singapore Sling, the history of this one planted seeds in my head. I'm glad you finally covered it, and it makes for a great way to end out 2018. My only complaint is the bowl you used: The earlier versions I thought were more intricate, and the tikis holding up the mighty vessel seemed more excited, but maybe that it's just me.
Though it does make me wonder if you'll cover some of the Trader Sam's drinks in future videos. There's plenty of recipes online due to reverse engineering from ingenious tiki goers, and I know you might have fun with them!
Glad you dig the video and was worth the wait.
This bowl is different from some of the other Trader Sam's bowls. This one is the Drummer Bowl and the other editions they've had were the Uh Oa! Bowl.
I'm not sure about the Trader Sam's drinks. I liked the ones I had, but I've got a handful of other drinks queued up in the meantime. Wanna send me some links to the reverse engineered drinks?
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Loved the video as always. Have you tried to scale this back to a single serving? I don't have enough friends for sharing (don't make me drink the whole thing alone!)
In terms of creating a single serve, just divide everything by 4. It scales pretty well.
1 oz (30 ml) Gold Cuban Rum
1 oz (30 ml) London Dry Gin
0.5 oz (15 ml) Brandy
0.5 oz (15 ml) Orgeat
0.33 oz (10 ml) Simple Syrup
0.5 oz (15 ml) Lime Juice
1 oz (30 ml) Orange Juice
Shake with 6 oz (180 ml) of ice. Pour unstrained into a glass or tiki mug. Serve with straw.
Da-amn! This was a tasty recipe! I omitted the simple syrup but put in an extra dash of orgeat. You can’t tell there’s booze in there except for the mule-like kick in the chest you get from the first sip!😋👌🏻
Nice! Yeah, I'd do the same thing if I were you. Just go for the Orgeat all the way, make it easier on yourself. Glad you liked it so well. Cheers!
Thanks for this! So I made one of these, but I cut this recipe down by half to make a cocktail that would fit in a hurricane glass. Very good tiki drink, but man it is strong!
Well, even cut it half, it'd be meant for two, so no wonder it's strong. Haha. Cheers!
Nice Beachbum Berry bar spoon
Ha! It makes an appearance from time to time.
Wow
Cheers!
Good to see your cocktail mojo again! Holiday cocktail...?
Glad you dug it. Cheers!
Your fan noww
Great! Welcome!
solid video, will be making it this weekend. Interested to see what the orgeat does to it. Will take your advice and some dry booze to cut down on the overall sweetness of the drink. Keep up the great work!
For sure. Let me know what you think when you whip one up. Cheers!
I'm having a 64 OZ Scorpion Bowl custom made. The volcano in the middle will be larger to accommodate an orange shell and the croutons I'll make will be 3 inch cubes. I've stocked up on lemon extract. This summer my backyard parties will rise to legendary status.
Oooh. Custom made. Sounds exciting! Who is making it?
I'm a gangster southsider from Chicago so i'm having a highschool kid do it that has access to a kiln. It's going to look like shit but will be huge and will have a fun story behind it...and will cost 10 dollars and a bottle of jameson.
Haha. Nice. Like Hyde Park southside or more like Gary?
@@DistinguishedSpirits further south than Hyde Park, not as south as Gary.
A little known fact...cooties are killed by the alcohol in the drink. Cheers!
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Is coronavirus though? Here's hoping!!
Thumbs UP mate, thought many times of making us a Scorpion or Volcano Bowl (would make a nice Vid too ;) with the "pyro effects") but not untill now maybe on new years eve. "Drum bowl from disneylands trader sams^^ i musst admit i couldnt resist to visit Priates of the Carribeans Tiki Bar (Captain Jacks Restaurant) and bring back with me three nice Tiki Mugs, they are basically 18centurie style Rum Mugs with a lid on it with a Skeleton Pirate holding the Wheel on top of it
Geil! Sounds like they have different mugs at Euro Disney. If you end up making this one, let me know how it turns out. Prost!
@@DistinguishedSpirits Thanks mate, i for sure will tell you mate,Thanks for bringing a little bit of light an a BIG Portion of inspiration to us
Euro Disney has some great tiki stuff the pirate mugs are awsome, you can also get some coconut husks and in the time of Halloween you can get some Maleficent themed ones^^ the later iam planing to get at my next visit (in two years :/) and use them for "dr.funk" Cocktails
once again THANK you for all the work and good videos they are Kindling to keep the flame of cocktail passion burning
I NEED to try this. If only getting store bought orgeat wasn't so hard to get here in Scandinavia oof.
Make it yourself. It's delicious
@@jordanlindsay3913 My only problem is that I generally can't be bothered to make a batch every time I am in the mood for a batch. I would love something with a long shelf life.
Here's how to make it at home: ua-cam.com/video/kDKTwW0JVjY/v-deo.html
Add some vodka to help preserve it. Store some of it in the refrigerator and some in the freezer. That way it will be sure to last longer. Cheers!
You gotta make yourself a nice home tiki bar 😉
Maybe as soon as I get a second home. Haha.
Where do you get your dendrobium orchids? I am not able to find them anywhere locally.
Like all your tiki videos. Please keep em coming
Glad you like the videos. Cheers!
There's a link to buy the orchids on Amazon in the Description of the video, but here it is again: amzn.to/2Gl6urC
Hope that helps!
Sipsmith, Good stuff! Get that UK?
Yeah, it's pretty fantastic. Cheers!
Great video! For someone that really knows his drinks, I'm curious of your thoughts with Disney's tiki bar franchise?
It was pretty good. They have a lot of great design, decor and effects. In terms of the menu, they don't have a lot of classics (Fog Cutter, Zombie, etc.) but their original tiki drinks are all pretty exciting. They have fun, collectible, limited mugs, so that usually excites the tiki fans. They also have good music playing, all mid-century exotica. I've only been to the one in CA, so I'm not sure how the FL one compares. Either way, if you're into tiki, you'd probably dig it. Hope that helps. Cheers!
Interesting, informative and entertaining!
Appreciate it. Glad you dug it. Cheers!
I would use longer straws and put flaming croutons on the corners of that bowl.
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Where did you find the L'Orgeat? Great video BTW!
Thanks! Glad you liked the video.K&L Wines (in CA) has it. bit.ly/2GXVBcx
I believe the company is based in NY, so there may be more outlets for it on the east coast.
Soup bowl comment killed me hahah
Haha. Cheers!
Hey hello 😊 I am a great tikifan and love your videos and recipies! But I am not able to find this bowl! Can yo help me please? I live in germany. Same is with the Hamilton rums... Btw love your new Painkiller!
Hamilton rums are hard to find in Europe. You're going to have better luck with other brands. And this bowl in this video came from Disneyland's tiki bar called Trader Sam's. So you'll have to get it there or on eBay. I know there is a Trader Sam's in California and Florida, but I'm not sure if there's one in the Paris Disneyland, which I assume is the closest one to you. All that being said, you can get another bowl and serve it that way. It doesn't have to be in this one. I think Trader Vic's sells Scorpion Bowls and Tiki Bowls on their website. Or if you live near Munich, you can stop by the Trader Vic's there. One of those bowls would be more authentic anyway. Prost!
Someone got new barware :)
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Is shaking the drink with only a little crushed ice and then letting it dilute in the glass the way you now think is best for shaking tiki drinks, or is it only the particular style for this and the Tia Mia?
In terms of the Tia Mia, I like to whip it (shake it with only a little crushed ice). This process it similar. Beachbum Berry recommends blending it instead of shaking or stirring. Either way, you're going to get integrate all of the ingredients, chill it down a bit, but allow the ice in the bowl to do most of the heavy lifting in terms of dilution. That way, it will act like a tradition punch, where it starts off strong and mellows as you work your way to the bottom. It's just a matter of getting the right balance for the dilution. Anyway, hope that helps. Cheers!
Anyone knows where i can find tiki cups/mugs online?
Here are some great ones:
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Beside myself that you did not put some 151 in each one of those 3 dudes and light them on fiyur. Still a great recipe.
That pic of Mortician Addams drinking with Gig Young and Red Buttons 👍🏽
Ha! I didn't realize that was Morticia. I hope you liked Red Button's cameo in the next video, Thursday's Child. 😉👍
Any new Tiki drinks on the horizon DS? Also, have you tried using a drink mixer for your Tiki drinks instead of a shaker? Any differences to the end product?
Usually most of the classic recipes call for a blender, but unless it’s specifically needed like in the Missionary’s Downfall, I usually like to shake it.
Next one should be tiki. So stay tuned!
Distinguished Spirits awesome thanks!
do you grow your own mint? Ive never been able to find such large, unfolded bunches from any of my local stores
Try a nursery. However, I recently found a mint plant with these large leaves at a local swapmeet.
I usually try to. However, I have two brown thumbs and can't seem to keep them luscious for more than a month or two. Recently for the videos, I've tended to get them from a local nursery, so they look good on camera.
This guy must be kin to Chef John
add that to the shaker...
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Where would one find orchids?
I got mine from a local shop, but they're available online too (amzn.to/2Gl6urC).
How does the L’Orgeat compare to the 12 bottle bar recipe?
L'Orgeat is tasty. I still haven't had an orgeat that tops the 12 Bottle Bar recipe. BG Reynolds is too flowery. Orgeatworks is good, but even more floral. L'Orgeat is great, but the 12 Bottle Bar homemade stuff is really amazing.
L'Orgeat scores some points for being shelf-stable. The 12BB recipe has the perfect thick, syrupy and (very, very lightly) gritty mouthfeel to it. L'Orgeat is slightly thinner, still syrupy, but no mild dusting of that almond meal texture. It's just really smooth. So, I still like the 12 BB better, but L'Orgeat is really solid.
Plus, L'Orgeat was easy to shoot with it. It acted like a spirit and not a cold syrup with condensation and leaving rings on the bar and finger prints in the beads of condensation. Little things like that. Haha. Hope that rambling paragraph answered your question. Cheers!
I’d rather have too much information than not enough. I appreciate all the content that you make for this channel. 12bb recipe it is. I wonder what all the tiki bars by me use, tiki ti, Tonga hut, lono, trader sams ? Inquiring minds want to know.
Probably Orgeatworks (Latitude 29's brand) or BG Reynolds would be my guess. Knowing Lono, they might make their own.
If your ever out toward Palm Springs. Hit up the Tonga hut, ask the manager to see the secret room. They have some original decorations from the late but never forgotten babookas. If your a tiki file like myself, you might enjoy it.
Cool. Thanks for the tip. I hear good things about the PS Tonga Hut. Cheers!
Why does your voice make me feel like I’m about to be thrown in the back of a van and whisked away??? 😬 Great recipe regardless!
I don't know, dude. I'm not your shrink. I can't tell you why you're thinking about that.
谁能给我翻译一下 谢谢😢
对不起，我不会说普通话。 您可以将描述中的文本（位于视频下方）复制并粘贴到翻译器中。 这基本上会告诉你视频中的内容。
我听不懂你视频里说什么，没办法翻译😭@@DistinguishedSpirits
不是视频。 我的意思是说。 这是书面版本的链接。
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Does this really need that much Orgeat and simple? Sounds like and awful lot. Was thinking of winging this one next weekend for a party.
It's 3.5 oz of sweet to 6 oz of citrus. It's balanced in this recipe, but if you're afraid of it being too sweet, just start with 2 oz and add everything else, taste it and see how it turns out. You can always add the other 1.5 oz later.