Oisin Davis of the Damson Diner recreates the Between the Sheets cocktail from the classic 1982 movie 'Evil Under the Sun', starring Maggie Smyth and Peter Ustinov.
Oisin says, "As with any industry leaders, those marvelous boozehounds who concoct wonderful libations are certainly quite prone to a wee bit of marketing hype. For instance, during the prohibition era, certain cocktails were given controversial names or deliberately sexed up so as to make something that was usually quite rancid, sound that bit more appealing. Don't forget, this was a time when owners of speakeasy joints were mixing up bath tub gin or buying ethanol from chemical companies so that they could mask it off as whiskey by dyeing it brown.... "Between the sheets" is one such drink. While rum was an easy spirit to procure (as Cuba was so close to Florida), a lot of places would have used DIY brandy and orange liqueur. But that was then and this is now! These days you can lash one of these together fairly easily and once you use quality spirits, you won't have to endure the nastiness of taste and brutality of hangover that backstreet booze did to punters for 13 long years in America.
