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Alexander's Sister
Recipe:
30 ml gin
30 ml cream
15 ml crème de menthe
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 fresh burst of crème de menthe gives this creamy dessert drink its distaff edge. But, as the saying goes: "If this is a ladies' drink, call me a lady!"
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.
Apple Jack Cocktail
Recipe:
1 dash Angostura bitter
25 ml sweet vermouth
25 ml calvados
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Apple Jack was the unofficial spirit of the American Revolution. Jersey lightning had been produced in the colonies long before there was talk of revolution. Touches of bitter and vermouth add spice to the apple.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
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
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.
El Presidente
Recipe:
45 ml light rum
20 ml dry vermouth
10 ml curaçao
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: orange twist
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Created by the bartender at the Jockey Club in Havana, Cuba for Presidente Gerardo Marchado who was president of Cuba from 1925 to 1933, this combination of rum, curaçao, vermouth, and grenadine is what Trader Vic once called "the Martini of Cuba."
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
French 75
Recipe:
45 ml gin
15 ml lemon juice
10 ml simple syrup
120 ml champagne
How to:
Shake gin, lemon juice, and sugar with ice. Strain into a large ice filled wine glass. Fill with champagne.
Served in Champagne Flute
Facts:
Named after the French 75 mm field gun from World War One, this creation by Harry MacElhone's combines cognac or gin (either is delicious) with fresh lemon, cane syrup, and champagne and "hits with remarkable precision."
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Negroni
Recipe:
30 ml gin
30 ml Campari
30 ml sweet vermouth
How to:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir and strain into a serving glass filled with ice. Garnish with: orange twist
Served in Tumbler
Variant:
There is also an option to have soda on the side.
Facts:
This drink was born in Florence, Italy during the 1910s, at the request of Count Negroni. He loved Americanos , but he wanted something stronger. So he asked the bartender at Caffe Casoni, one Fosco "Gloomy" Scarselli, to top it up with gin instead of soda water.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Sidecar
Recipe:
45 ml cognac
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml fresh lemon juice
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:
There are many stories about this drink's origins either in Paris or London. What really matters about this cocktail is that virtually every drinks writer and serious bartender considers this to be one of the most important classic drinks of all time.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
