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Alexander
Recipe:
30 ml dry gin
15 ml white crème de cacao
30 ml light 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:
If you like Ramos Gin Fizzes, you'll love the original Alexander. Just as Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards in high heels, the Alexander manages to be an entire Ramos in a cocktail glass.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Approve Cocktail
Recipe:
60 ml rye whisky
2 dashes Angostura bitter
15 ml curaçao
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: lemon twist and orange peel
Served in Wine Glass
Facts:
Not far removed from the original cocktail, the Old Fashioned, this combination of rye, curaçao, and bitter is sure to please any purist.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Bentley Cocktail
Recipe:
25 ml calvados or apple brandy
25 ml Dubonnet
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
This combination of calvados and Dubonnet appeared in Savoy bartender Harry Craddock's famous cocktail book three years after Team Bentley celebrated their 1927 LeMans victory at the Savoy Hotel, carrying the winning car up the stairs into the dining room.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Brandy Cobbler
Recipe:
2 wedges fresh pineapple (one without skin, one with)
2 slices orange
2 wedges lemon
20 ml raspberry syrup or raspberry liqueur
60 ml brandy
How to:
Muddle the pineapple wedge without skin, one orange slice, and one lemon wedge with the raspberry syrup and 30 ml of water in a mixing glass. Add ice and the brandy and shake well. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with an orange slice and lemon wedge. Garnish with: an orange wedge, the remaining pineapple wedge, and a lemon wedge
Served in Double Old Fashioned
Facts:
Traditionally made with whatever fruit was available in season, 21st century bartenders have a much wider selection to muddle, shake, and stir into this perfect balance of fruit and spirit.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Buck's Fizz
Recipe:
60 ml fresh-squeezed orange juice
10 ml gin
1 dash cherry brandy
champagne
How to:
Slowly pour the ingredients in the following order into a flute: juice, brandy, gin, and champagne. Garnish with: orange wedge
Served in Champagne Flute
Facts:
This sparkling classic was invented by a bartender named Patrick McGarry at the Buck's Club in London. This one contains a splash of cherry brandy, though Mr. McGarry secretly slipped a bit of tangerine juice into his.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Caipirinha
Recipe:
60 ml cachaça
2 barspoons caster sugar
2 lime quarters
How to:
Wash the lime. Cut it in half and cut the half into quarters. Put limes and sugar into a tumbler, and muddle hard. Add the cachaça and stir. Fill with ice, and stir again.
Served in Tumbler
Facts:
How many countries in this world truly have a national drink? None that could rival Brasil's loyalty to the caipirinha. Cachaca, lime, sugar, and ice. It's such a simple drink; one that perfectly highlights the unique flavor of country's native cane spirit.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Cuba Libre
Recipe:
60 ml light rum
120 ml cola
1 lime wedge
How to:
Pour ingredients over ice into a tumbler. Add a generous squeeze of lime, and then add the rind as a garnish. Garnish with: lime wedge
Served in Tumbler
Facts:
Named for the battle cry of Cuban revolutionaries, this combination of Cuban rum, cola, and fresh lime has been quenching tropical thirsts since shortly after Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders departed Cuba.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Dark 'n' Stormy
Recipe:
60 ml Gosling's Black Seal rum
120 ml ginger beer
1 lime wedge
How to:
Build in the serving glass over cracked ice. Garnish with: squeezed lime wedge
Served in Old Fashioned
Facts:
Call it a Bermuda Mule if you like. Dark rum, lime, and ginger beer work so well together that this adaptation of the Moscow Mule, which itself was an adaptation of an old British drink has become the signature cocktail of Bermuda.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Margarita
Recipe:
45 ml tequila
15 ml Cointreau
30 ml lime juice
How to:
Shake ingredients with ice. Strain into a salt-rimmed cocktail glass, or a salt rimmed, ice filled, margarita glass. You can salt just half of the rim.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
There are dozens stories about the birth of the Margarita, and at least one of them is true. This tequila classic has endured because it is uniquely satisfying, especially on a hot afternoon.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
