for thanksgiving i made, along with the blueberry thing, a batch of zombies. whereby i discovered that the santa cruz passionfruit nectar is superior to the ceres passionfruit nectar.
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berkeley bowl carries both toschi and fabbri amarena cherries, both approved by scott beattie.
i made another batch of zombies, this time i made the passionfruit syrup by reducing the passionfruit nectar in half. this was not as successful; i prefer the uncooked passionfruit flavor.
i also started thinking about being more mathematical/systematic about making syrups. i figure that a cup of 1:1 syrup has 360 [...]
here’s what i took from kaiser penguin’s zombie recipe comparison: a zombie is a complex, carefully proportioned mixture of anything i want to put in it.
i had a hard time finding passionfruit juice, so i used santa cruz ‘passionfruit nectar’ which is a pretty sorry substitute.
i also didn’t feel like buying any 151 just [...]
