Prepare:

1. Select and pre-heat a SNIFTER/BRANDY BALLOON GLASS.
2. WARNING - Igniting alcohol is extremely dangerous, so take great care, and please practice with water first to perfect your method. Stand on a non-flammable floor and have help and suitable fire-fighting equipment nearby.
3. Prepare garnish of two lemon zest twists.

How to make:

4. The following recipe makes two cocktails.
5. Preheat a pair of large silver-plated tankards (blazer mugs) with handles with boiling water and pre-warm the whisky by standing the bottle in hot water.
6. POUR the whisky into one tankard and fresh boiling water into the other.
7. IGNITE the whisky using a long match and while still blazing pour the whisky into the other tankard.
8. THROW the flaming mixture from one tankard to the other. (The foolhardy increase the distance between the tankards as they pour, thus creating a spectacular long blue flame between the two.)
9. Extinguish flame by covering flaming tankard with base of the other tankard.
10. POUR into glasses and sweeten to taste by stirring in powdered sugar.

Garnish:

11. EXPRESS a lemon zest over each cocktail and use as garnish.