Secrets of the Bombay Flower

[smokingboot]

Enough. Yes, Hard Wired and I are doomed to combust in an apocalypse of malfunctioning tech, vile weather and insane passers-by. Morituri te salutant! I shall think on it no longer.

Instead I will reveal how to make the most glorious cocktail as discovered by ravenrigan and explained to me by a barkeeper last night, before I went on to enjoy Hot Fuzz in the company of larians, evilwends andcyanidemigraine.

For the delectable cooling cocktail known as The Bombay Flower one mixes:

Bombay Sapphire Gin: Double shot
Elderflower cordial/presse: Half a single shot
4 mint leaves shredded
A squeeze of lemon if preferred
And the mysterious hitherto unknown ingredient:
Syrup de Gomme (brand = Molin}: half a single shot

Don't tell Mad Carew; he'll just steal the gin or offend the locals by ripping up their herb gardens, or squirt lemon in your eyes because you told him he can't kiss properly. Let's leave that loser somewhere north of Kathmandu, steal his aspirin, and we shall cross dream borders, you and I, under a jasmine moon two nights before the monsoon...

Comments

oooh

[ravenrigan.livejournal.com]

And where my princess is the mysterious syrup de gomme obtained?

And who vouchsafed the sacred recipe?

Re: oooh

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Ah well, ravenly queen, the who is easier than the where... I found a servant in a bacchic temple maintained by the same priesthood; There's a small branch? outlet? of Giraffe in the Trafford Centre near Manchester, and there the bargirl made a Bombay Flower for me and told me how to make it for myself.

But as to where this strange elixir can be bought, I have no clue. Presumably it can be ordered over the internet.

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

But as to where this strange elixir can be bought, I have no clue. Presumably it can be ordered over the internet.

I have consulted the oracle at Google¹ on this very matter and present not one but two solutions (ahem) to this mystery.

First you could make it yourself following these instructions , or two just purchase from these fine internet purveyors.

1: So named as The Internet Oracle is a entirely different beast.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

You, sir, are a wonder! (And an optimist; make it myself?)

Bombay Flower

[kittysiren.livejournal.com]

Aha! Syrope de Gomme! It all makes perfect esoteric (oxymoron) sense now!

Re: Bombay Flower

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

And yet, I feel there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. We shall have to experiment further.

I have recently tried dry white wine with frozen rasberries. Ver' nice!