A few recipes to go with this hard-to-come-by, but tangy passion fruit liqueur.
I had trouble finding this stuff back in North America – so it was nice to see it on the shelf at the Behemot/Velyka Kishenya grocery store, in Pechersk. It’s a nice, low-alcohol fruit liqueur, and it brings back nice memories of when I was an adolescent raiding my parents’ liquor cabinets for booze that’s easy on the taste buds. It’s Charleston Follies liqueur, from those booze-masters at Marie Blizard.
This light (20 percent alcohol per volume) concoction mixes well with just about any type of fruit juice – but tastes succulent by itself on the rocks. The more experimental can try some of the following recipes:
Charleston Follies Martini
60 ml vodka
30 ml Charleston Follies
Combine vodka and CF with ice in a shaker. Strain and pour into martini glass and garnish with lemon twist
Sailor Moon
30 ml white rum
30 ml Charleston Follies
Lemon juice
Champagne
Combine white rum, CF and lemon juice with ice in shaker. Strain into martini glass, top up with champagne and garnish with a slice of lemon
Sunburn
30ml of Charleston Follies
30 ml Southern Comfort
Splash of orange and passion-fruit juices
Combine in highball glass over ice
Garnish with a slice of orange
