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• Muddle beans.
• Put all ingredients in shaker; shake and then fine strain into coupe.
• Garnish with flamed orange twist.

For the flamed orange twist, courtesy of Dale DeGroff’s The Craft of the Cocktail:

• Cut a thin oval peel of an orange.
• Hold a lit match in one hand and hold the twist by the side between your thumb and forefringer, skinside facing down about 4 inches above the drink.
• Hold the match between the drink and the twist. Snap the twist sharply, propelling the oil through the lit match and onto the surface of the drink.

This article appears in Oct 1-31, 2010.