diff --git a/test/integration/adopted-store-cross-node.test.ts b/test/integration/adopted-store-cross-node.test.ts
index 8a23bbb..522d6bf 100644
--- a/test/integration/adopted-store-cross-node.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/adopted-store-cross-node.test.ts
@@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ test("a consumer on a joined node opens the adopted broker on the control-node o
   await install("amqp-ping", NODE);
   await mesh(`push ${NODE}`, 900_000);
 
+  // The consumer minted its grant against anchor's broker only when node2 was composed
+  // (a provision secret is a side-effect of composing the CONSUMER). anchor's provisioner
+  // learns of a cross-node consumer only when anchor is composed again, so push it once more to
+  // mint the vhost. Adding a cross-node consumer means pushing the provider node too (issue 055).
+  await mesh(`push anchor`, 600_000);
+
   // amqp-ping's container comes up and stays up (a broker it could not reach would crash-loop it).
   const psName = async () => (await on(NODE, `docker ps -a --format '{{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}'`)).out;
   const deadline = Date.now() + 600_000;