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Blanche Cocktail
Recipe:
30 ml Cointreau
15 ml anisette
30 ml white curaçao
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Can't resist a bowl of hard candies? First to look at the dessert menu? Love licorice allsorts? This is your ideal digestif. Anisette, Cointreau, and curaçao combine to create a remarkable drink to be consumed in small quantities.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
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.
Bronx (Silver) Cocktail
Recipe:
juice of 1/4 orange
10 ml dry vermouth
10 ml sweet vermouth
25 ml dry gin
1 egg white
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Wine Glass
Facts:
The addition of an egg white and a lot of hard shaking by the bartender results in a very creamy Bronx.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Campden Cocktail
Recipe:
30 ml dry gin
15 ml Cointreau
10 ml Lillet Blanc
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 sweet-balanced and very orange-flavored cocktail of gin, Lillet Blanc, and Cointreau it replicates the flavored gins that were all the rage a century before flavored vodkas sprawled across the back bar at the end of the 20th century.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Colonial Cocktail
Recipe:
50 ml dry gin
15 ml grapefruit juice
3 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:
A cousin to the Hemingway Daiquiri, this superb gin-based cocktail combines maraschino liqueur and grapefruit juice.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Irish Coffee
Recipe:
120 ml freshly brewed coffee
45 ml Irish whiskey
1 tablespoon brown sugar
lightly-whipped unsweetened cream
How to:
Pre-heat an Irish coffee glass with hot water. Combine the coffee, whiskey, and sugar in the glass. Stir well to dissolve sugar.Float a half inch of cream on the top.
Served in Irish coffee glass
Facts:
Born on Ireland's west coast one foggy evening in the 1940s, the Irish Coffee is still an ideal warm-up.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Manhattan, Dry
Recipe:
60 ml rye or bourbon whiskey
30 ml dry vermouth
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: lemon twist
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Made with dry vermouth and garnished with a twist, the Dry Manhattan is a very pleasant alternative to the usual.
Southside
Recipe:
45 ml gin
25 ml lemon juice
15 ml simple syrup
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: mint sprigs
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Born in Chicago's rough-and-tumble Southside, were gangster Al Capone held court at the Metropole Hotel, this drink left its heartland roots to become a favorite at yacht country clubs, where it can still be found today.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Ti Punch
Recipe:
45 ml rhum agricole
5 ml simple syrup
thin wedge of lime
How to:
Build ingredients in an ice-filled serving glass.
Served in Old Fashioned
Facts:
Short for petit punch, this French Caribbean classic is as old as rhum itself. The cane plantation owners knew from the start that a little lime and sugar smoothed the edges of their rum, a direct descendant of cachaca when its distillers arrived there from Brasil.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide