Homemade Gardenia Mix

Name: Homemade Gardenia Mix
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Tiki
Ingredients: 0.5 cup unsalted butter; 0.5 cup honey; 0.25 tsp vanilla extract; 0.25 tsp ground cinnamon; 0.25 tsp ground allspice

rich spiced warm

Donn Beach’s butter-based house compound for the Pearl Diver. Butter, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, and allspice whisked into a tropical sauce that gets flash-blended directly into the drink. Silky, unusual, worth the trouble.

Homemade Gardenia Mix—Donn Beach’s butter-based house compound with honey, vanilla, cinnamon, and allspice

Servings

Ingredients

0.5 cup unsalted butter
0.5 cup honey
0.25 tsp vanilla extract
0.25 tsp ground cinnamon
0.25 tsp ground allspice

Directions

Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat.

Whisk in the honey until fully integrated.

Whisk in the vanilla extract, cinnamon, and allspice.

Remove from heat and cool to room temperature. The mix will firm up slightly as it cools.

Bottle and refrigerate. Shake or re-whisk to recombine before each use.

See Gardenia Mix for the full story—the lost-and-reconstructed history, why it works in the Pearl Diver, and Jeff Berry’s recovery of the original recipe.