Cabin
Boy
1 oz.
Vodka
2 oz. Crème de Cocoa (white or brown)
3 oz. Crème de Caribé or Ponché Cuba
This is
a frozen drink quickly became a favorite at Captain's Quarters bar.
It was inspired by a 'mud-slide' and named by a visiting
Clinton White House Intern from California...
Take a
blender and fill to the top with ice. Add vodka, Crème de Cocoa
and Ponché Cuba - making sure to coat the ice as you pour. Make sure
there is more ice than liquor.
Blend on
high speed. Stop the blender several times and 'smack down the
contents' before blending again. When you get to a nice frozen
slushy consistency - serve in a tall glass and dust with Cocoa Powder.
Saban
Cabin Boy
Same as
above, but topped with a splash of Saba Spice...... and topped with
freshly ground nutmeg and a cinnamon stick.
Warning: This drink has absolutely no
redeeming nutritional value and has been know to produce extreme
'brain-freeze' when slurped too fast....
Divers
Down, Bottoms Up
1 oz.
vodka
1 oz. Saba Spice
Fill up with orange juice
Saba
Fizz
1 oz.
vodka
1 oz. Saba Spice
Fill up with Perrier or club soda. Garnish with wedge of lemon.
Saba
Mama
1 oz.
Cointreau
1 oz. Bacardi or Mount Gay rum
Add 2/3 cranberry juice
add 1/3 pineapple.
Top off with a splash of Saba Spice.
Add lemon to taste.
Flying
Eagle
1 oz.
Bacardi or Mount Gay rum
1 oz. Saba Spice
Fill up with pineapple juice.
CQ
Special
This is
the house special fruit punch on steroids..... It was
traditionally made by combining the liquors as they were lined up
above the bar.
Starting
with Contreau, Triple Sec, Grand Marnier, Curacao, Napoleon Brandy,
Light Rum, Dark Rum, Black Rum, Saba Spice and whatever fruity
liquors, rum or brandies have a bit left at the bottom of the
bottle.....
...you
then add orange juice, pineapple juice, grapefruit juice, lemon juice,
grenadine syrup and anything else you think appropriate. Mix and
it will last for weeks in the refrigerator.
Serve
over lots of ice....
Note:
Since this can be a rather lethal mixture where you don't really taste
the alcohol, we started mixing the liquor separately and then served
it as a side addition next to the punch bowl at receptions. This
solved the problem of making two sets of punch (alcoholic and non)
- and allowed people to add as much 'Special' to their fruit punch as
they wanted.
Saba
spice is also recommended in piña coladas, as a topping for ice cream, added to coffee,
seasoning for apple pie, ham, and chicken.
Saba
Spice Sundae
Our
'signature desert' at Captain's Quarters was a Saba Spice Sundae. Many
have tried to reproduce it and failed - because the were missing the
secret of the desert.
In order to keep the ice cream from
melting - you have to freeze the Saba Spice for a few hours before
serving.
We just used a plastic squeeze-bottle full of
Spice and kept it in the freezer.
Note: the liquor doesn't actually
freeze - it just gets very thick and syrupy. If you don't
freeze the liquor, you'll have a mushy meltdown within seconds of
adding the Saba Spice!
Just before
serving, squirt a little Saba Spice in the bottom of a Sundae dish.
Add vanilla, chocolate or coffee ice cream, squirt a bit more Spice,
add whipped cream, nuts, cherry, etc. and squirt a bit more frozen
Spice on top....
Serve IMMEDIATELY!
How can I get some Saba
Spice?
The only way to
obtain Saba Spice is to actually visit Saba.
Although some
people have tried these recipes using commercially available Spiced
Rum or the St. Maarten Spiced Liquor available at the Guavaberry Shop
- it just isn't the same.
Several brave souls have
reportedly even tried to duplicate Spice by inventing their own recipe
with disastrous results... reportedly setting the kitchen on fire only
to produce a ghoulish brew that didn't even come close to the real
thing....
...so a trip to Saba is a
must!
Something for the kids
Although this doesn't have
any alcohol, it turned out to be such a favorite with the staff's
children I had to list it..... Invented by the pool at Captain's
Quarters one day when Jackie and Nercy were teaching Lilla's kids how
to swim. All the kids on Saba were soon screaming for 'more
monkey guts please...'
Monkey Guts
Take a blender and fill
with ice. Add whatever leftover fruit juices you have and mix a
little of each into the blender. Add some Sprite, Fanta or any other
soda - making sure that there is more liquid than ice.... then pulverize in the blender.
Creamy Monkey Guts
Add a little creme of
coconut before you blend for that extra 'Uggggh' effect....
Super Nasty Monkey Guts
Only for the most depraved
kids on the block.... Add some grenadine syrup before
blending along with a few cherries... The kids will squeal with glee
as the resulting brain-freeze calms them down for a few minutes before
the sugar-jolt reactivates the madness.....
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