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Maggie Smith

Recipe from Joaquín Simó

Adapted by Pete Wells

Published Sept. 27, 2024

Maggie Smith
David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.
Total Time
5 minutes
Rating
4(136)
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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

  1. 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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Rhea

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.

Ed

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

Steve

No ice?

Stacy

Used a splash of agave instead of the honey syrup and shook with plenty of ice. Really delicious. Herby, a little sweet, rich, almost tasted of anise. Really good. I would have been thrilled to get this if I had ordered it at a craft cocktail place.

Barb

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

Melissa S

Fabulous cocktail! Good use for Pisco Portón and orgeqt!

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Credits

Recipe from “Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails” by David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald and Alex Day (Ten Speed Press, 2014)

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