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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
Bijou
Recipe:
30 ml Plymouth gin
30 ml Chartreuse
30 ml sweet vermouth
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: cherry and a lemon twist
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Originally served as a layered drink—a pousse café—the Bijou took its name from the three precious stones it represented: diamonds (gin), rubies (vermouth), and emeralds (Chartreuse).
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Booster Cocktail
Recipe:
4 dashes curaçao
1 egg white
60 ml brandy
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: grated nutmeg
Served in Rocks glass
Facts:
Just four ingredients: brandy, egg white, curaçao, and a dusting of nutmeg deliver a flavor made distinctly foreign by time more than distance. Thus, it is a true taste of the past.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Dirty Martini
Recipe:
60 ml dry gin
30 ml dry vermouth
10 ml olive brine
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: stuffed olive
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
A spoonful of olive brine is all it takes to make a Martini dirty. US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is said to have been a fan of this drink.
Gin and It
Recipe:
30 ml gin
30 ml sweet vermouth
2 dashes orange bitter
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:
The original formula for the Martini cocktail, the Gin and It combines London Dry Gin (or Plymouth Gin) with Italian sweet vermouth to create a balanced and flavorful libation.
Manhattan, Sweet
Recipe:
60 ml rye or bourbon whiskey
30 ml sweet vermouth
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: cherry
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
The classic Manhattan was born sometime around the 1860s. Often credited to Winston Churchill's mother, American socialite Jenny Jerome, she was at Blenheim Palace in Oxford with her new baby at the time she allegedly invented this drink in New York.
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
Pegu
Recipe:
60 ml gin
20 ml curaçao
15 ml lime juice
1 dash Angostura bitter
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: lime peel
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Fifty miles outside Rangoon, Burma, in the sweltering jungle heat, drinkers at the elite Pegu Club quenched their thirst with this signature cocktail. With gin, lime, bitters, and triple sec, it contains everything you need to survive the tropics.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Tom Collins
Recipe:
50 ml gin
25 ml lemon juice
15 ml simple syrup
60 ml soda water
How to:
Shake everything, except the soda water, with ice. Strain into an ice filled Collins glass. Top with soda. Garnish with: a cherry and an orange wheel
Served in Collins glass
Facts:
Originally made with Old Tom, a sweet gin or when cheaply made a sweetened gin, the Collins takes its name from a headwaiter at the Limerick Hotel in London, John Collins, who had a notorious reputation as a flirt and a charmer. Now made with London Dry Gin, the Collins is a classic tall drink.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
