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Americano
Recipe:
30 ml Campari
30 ml sweet vermouth
soda water
How to:
Pour Campari and sweet vermouth into a highball glass filled with ice and stir. Top with soda water. Garnish with: orange wedge or lemon twist
Served in Highball glass
Facts:
Gaspare Campari was inspired to create his namesake bitter by Antonio Carpano, or rather by Carpano's outstanding vermouth. He combined the two products. It clearly inspired Ian Fleming. It's the first drink James Bond ordered in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Aviation Cocktail
Recipe:
15 ml lemon juice
45 ml dry gin
2 dashes maraschino liqueur
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 the advent of air travel, this sky blue drink was created as a salute to the human race's newfound ability to fly.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Between the Sheets
Recipe:
30 ml brandy
30 ml light rum
30 ml Cointreau
15 ml lemon juice
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: lemon peel
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Why the nautical name? (There are no ropes on a sailboat, only sheets and lines; when you're between the sheets you are in the center of the boat.) This cognac drink is a Sidecar with an added touch of Caribbean rum.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Cordova Cocktail
Recipe:
30 ml dry gin
1 dash absinthe
1 teaspoon fresh cream
15 ml sweet vermouth
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Looking for something different? With gin, absinthe, sweet vermouth, and cream, it is hard to compare this to any other drink. The Cordova is in a league of its own.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
East India House
Recipe:
50 ml brandy
10 ml rum
10 ml fresh pineapple juice
10 ml curaçao
1 dash orange bitter
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: lemon twist and a cherry
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Another drink discovered by writer Charles H. Baker while traveling the world during the 1930s. This brandy and rum classic was found at the elite Royal Bombay Yacht Club while he was visiting old-Raj India.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Mai Tai
Recipe:
30 ml light rum
30 ml gold rum or dark, aged rum
15 ml curaçao
15 ml orgeat syrup
15 ml lime juice
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: a speared pineapple chunk, a cherry, and a sprig of mint
Served in Old Fashioned
Facts:
There is no question Trader Vic got it right when he set out to make a drink that would do for fine aged rum what the Manhattan did for whiskey and the Martini did for gin: to highlight and enhance the best qualities of the spirit.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Napoléon's Own
Recipe:
5 ml sugar syrup
5 ml lemon juice
25 ml whisky
25 ml gin
top soda water
How to:
Shake all ingredients—except the soda water—in a shaker over ice. Strain into the serving glass and top with soda water. Garnish with: lemon peel
Served in Small Highball
Facts:
Can you mix whiskey and gin? They did it successfully in the old days. In fact, this cocktail reintroduces the barrel flavor that was part of all gins during the 18th and 19th centuries when spirits were routinely transported in wooden vats.
Source:Bariana
Rose
Recipe:
60 ml dry vermouth
30 ml kirshwasser
1 teaspoon sirop de framboise ou de groseille
How to:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir and strain into a serving glass. Garnish with: maraschino cherry
Served in Cocktail Glass
Variant:
The raspberry syrup can also be replaced with redcurrant syrup.
Facts:
Of all the cocktails called the Rose this is the softest, the most delicate. You can have it with a base of gin if you're looking for something with thorns, but we prefer the original.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Rusty Nail
Recipe:
45 ml Scotch whisky
15 ml Drambuie
How to:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir and strain into a serving glass filled with ice.
Served in Old Fashioned
Facts:
This combination of whisky and Drambuie is said to have gotten its name when the first customer to taste one complimented award-winning bartender Donato "Duke" Antone by saying, "This is as smooth as a rusty nail!" If you are looking for a drink with a lot of flavor, this is it.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
