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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.
Allen (Special)
Recipe:
10 ml lemon juice
15 ml maraschino liqueur
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:
Many bartender has omitted the crème de violette in their Aviation cocktails as it's a difficult ingredient to find. Then, they've innocently served it as an Aviation. Actually, it's this drink. What makes it special: Is it the Plymouth Gin or the maraschino liqueur? That's for you to ponder.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
American Beauty
Recipe:
1 dash crème de menthe
15 ml orange juice
10 ml grenadine
10 ml dry vermouth
15 ml brandy
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Top with a little port wine. Garnish with: top with a little port wine
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
As it was served in London by American bartender Harry Craddock, this brandy-based drink is truly a beauty. Cameras at the ready.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Black Russian
Recipe:
60 ml vodka
30 ml coffee liqueur
How to:
Pour all the ingredients into a serving glass filled with ice and serve.
Served in Old Fashioned
Facts:
This wonderful drink was actually invented in 1949, the beginning of the Cold War, by a bartender named Gustav Top at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels, in honor of Perle Mesta, the US ambassador to Luxembourg.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Bolo Cocktail
Recipe:
juice of 1/4 lemon or 1/2 lime
juice of 1/4 orange
60 ml light rum
1 teaspoon sugar
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 classic twist on the Daiquiri adds a squeeze of fresh orange bringing a whole new dimension to the most popular of all rum drinks. Was it named after the bolo punch (boxing), the bolo knife, the tie, the Bolsheviks? We may never know.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
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
Martini with Twist
Recipe:
60 ml dry gin
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:
A Dry Martini is one that is made with dry vermouth. Less vermouth doesn't make the drink drier. It makes it less of a Martini. The quintessential gin cocktail, the best Martini is always made with fresh vermouth, and garnished with either a twist or an olive.
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
Victoria cocktail
Recipe:
1 bar spoon caster sugar
6 dashes green crème de menthe
30 ml cognac
30 ml rum
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: slice of orange and a sprig of mint
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
This remarkably rare cocktail is possibly of French origin, circa late 1800s. The combination of rum, Cognac, and crème de menthe is almost unheard of, but surprisingly pleasant.
Source:Bariana
