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Atta Boy Cocktail
Recipe:
15 ml dry vermouth
45 ml dry gin
4 dashes grenadine
How to:
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Ready to try a Dry Martini brightened with a dash of grenadine? Atta Boy! This one's been around forever, but made a quick resurgence as good grenadine becomes available once again.
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
Blenton Cocktail
Recipe:
1 dash Angostura bitter
15 ml dry vermouth
30 ml Plymouth 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:
Mix Plymouth Gin, dry vermouth and Angostura bitter and you have a Blenton. Think of it as a Pink Martini. And just a good pink champagne is drier and more complex, this drink stands above the Martini.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Brandy Alexander
AKA Alexander #2
Recipe:
45 ml brandy
30 ml cream
15 ml dark crème de cacao
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 this is a ladies' drink, call me a lady! Creamy and rich enough for a place on the dessert menu, the Alexander is an indulgent change form the citrus balance of most cocktails.
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.
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
Journalist
Recipe:
45 ml gin
10 ml dry vermouth
10 ml sweet vermouth
2 dashes triple sec
2 dashes lemon juice
1 dash Angostura bitter
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
A very fancy variation on the Perfect Martini, it twists the classic recipe with dashes of bitter, lemon juice, and curaçao.
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
Scorpion
Recipe:
30 ml brandy
30 ml light rum
60 ml orange juice
30 ml fresh lemon juice
15 ml orgeat syrup
15 ml 151 Lemon Hart Demerara rum
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: float 151 rum on top
Served in Double Old Fashioned
Facts:
Trader Vic's best loved creation next to the Mai Tai, the Scorpion appeared in his 1947 recipe book as a punch for 12 people. Finally, in 1972 he included a recipe for an individual drink based on it.
Source:Www.cocktaildb.com
