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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
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 Crusta
Recipe:
3 dashes maraschino liqueur
1 dash Angostura bitter
4 dashes lemon juice
10 ml curaçao
35 ml brandy
How to:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir and strain into a serving glass. Garnish with: moisten the edge with lemon and dip edge into castor sugar which frosts the glass. cut the rind of half a lemon spiral fashion; place in glass,adding slice of orange
Served in Wine Glass
Facts:
Considered the father of American bartending, Jerry Thomas called the Crusta "an improvement on the Cocktail". These days, there is still no doubt the Crusta is a cut above average.
Source:The Savoy Cocktail Book.
Corpse Reviver #2
Recipe:
20 ml gin
20 ml lemon juice
20 ml Cointreau
20 ml Lillet Blanc
1 dash absinthe, or pastis, Pernod, or other absinthe substitute
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass.
Served in Cocktail Glass
Facts:
Served at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the Corpse Reviver is really a family of cocktails, and number two is definitely number one in terms of flavor.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
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
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.
Milk Punch
Recipe:
60 ml bourbon whiskey
60 ml milk
1/2 teaspoon dark rum
1 tablespoon simple syrup
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 Small Highball
Facts:
It's been made with every spirit including gin. However, Bourbon is best (if you prefer brandy or rum your bartender will still respect you). Considered a morning drink in the American South, Milk Punch is excellent at any time of day or night.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Satan's Whiskers
Recipe:
20 ml gin
20 ml dry vermouth
20 ml sweet vermouth
20 ml orange juice
20 ml Grand Marnier
1 dash orange 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:
Would you like your whiskers straight (Grand Marnier) or curled (orange curaçao)? Please specify when ordering this sumptuous blend of gin and orange juice with both dry and sweet vermouths. The orange bitter add the right touch of tempting spice.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
Singapore Sling
Recipe:
45 ml gin
15 ml Cherry Heering
5 ml Cointreau
5 ml Benedictine
120 ml pineapple juice
15 ml lime juice
10 ml grenadine
1 dash Angostura bitter
How to:
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a service glass. Garnish with: a cherry and slice of pineapple
Served in Collins glass
Facts:
Invented by Ngiam Tong Boon at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel, Singapore in 1914, the same year the last wild tiger was shot there (in Singapore, not in the Long Bar and not by Mr. Boon as far as we know). This is the classic, which like wild tigers, is no longer found at Raffles.
Source:Museum Of The American Cocktail Pocket Recipe Guide
