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Artillery Cocktail
AKA Classic Martini
Recipe:
15 ml sweet vermouth
45 ml dry gin
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Another name for the classic Martini—not the dry Martini that came along later, the original one—this drink is made with fresh Italian vermouth and London dry gin.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book
Bamboo
Recipe:
30 ml dry vermouth
30 ml dry sherry
1 dash orange bitter
How to:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir and strain into a serving glass. Garnish with: orange twist
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Created in the late 1800s by Louis Eppinger, a San Francisco bartender working in Yokohama, Japan, this is a very complex, dry and spice-filled cocktail.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Bellini
Recipe:
60 ml white peach purée
120 ml chilled prosecco
How to:
Pour peach purée into a mixing glass with ice cubes, then gently add the prosecco. With a bar spoon, carefully stir by dragging the purée up from the bottom-much like folding egg whites.
Served in Champagne Flute
Facts:
Giuseppe Cipriani was making this drink in Venice for years before he noticed the color of a toga in a painting of 15th century Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini's matched his drink.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Bronx
Recipe:
50 ml gin
30 ml orange juice
5 ml sweet vermouth
5 ml dry vermouth
How to:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir and strain into a serving glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Birthed around 1900 by Johnnie Solon at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel bar, this Perfect Martini with a squeeze of orange rose in popularity to rival the Martini and Manhattan before it faded into a few decades of obscurity.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Chicago Cocktail
Recipe:
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1 dash curaçao
30 ml brandy
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: frost edge of glass with castor sugar and fill with champagnea re-proportioned champagne cocktail, the chicago is a luxurious brandy cocktail with a champagne float
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
A re-proportioned champagne Cocktail, the Chicago is a luxurious brandy cocktail with a champagne float.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Grasshopper
Recipe:
30 ml green crème de menthe
30 ml white crème de cacao
60 ml heavy cream
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Invented at Tujague's in New Orleans' French Quarter, this drink could be mistaken for mint chocolate chip ice cream, except that it has a very adult kick to it.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Pisco Sour
Recipe:
60 ml pisco
30 ml fresh lime juice
15 ml simple syrup
1/2 whole egg white
1 dash Angostura bitter
How to:
Shake all the ingredients hard over ice. Strain into a champagne flute. Use the dash of Angostura bitter as an aromatic garnish instead of mixing it into the drink. Garnish with: dash of angostura bitters
Served in Champagne Flute
Facts:
Invented in 1872 by an Englishman in Iquique, or by an American in Lima, there is no doubt the Pisco Sour was invented in Peru. Or Chile. The pisco at the heart of this exotic potation is a fine brandy invented in Peru. Or Chile.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
The Crow Cocktail
Recipe:
50 ml blended whisky
30 ml lemon juice
1 dash grenadine
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Originally a very tart whisky and lemon cocktail with just a dash of grenadine, we can sweeten it a bit more for you if you prefer.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Ward 8
Recipe:
50 ml bourbon whiskey
25 ml lemon juice
15 ml orange juice
15 ml sugar syrup
1 teaspoon grenadine
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Martin Lomansey, running in Boston for a seat in the Massachusetts Senate, was also boss of Boston's Ward Eight. He also knew how to be discreet. He famously said, "Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink." Want to try a Ward Eight? Just wink.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
