Category: Savoy Cocktail Book
5 July, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments
Choker Cocktail* (6 People)
4 Glasses Whisky (1 1/2 oz Binny’s Select Buffalo Trace Bourbon)
2 Glasses Absinthe (3/4 oz Lucid Absinthe)
1 Dash Absinthe Bitters (Angostura Bitters)
This Cocktail is to be very thoroughly shaken and no sweetening in any form should be added.
*Drink this and you can drink anything: new-laid eggs put into it immediately become hard-boiled.
With [...]
4 July, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments
Chocolate Cocktail (No. 2)
The Yolk of 1 Fresh Egg
1/4 Yellow Chartruese (1/2 oz Yellow Chartruese)
3/4 Port Wine (1 1/2 oz Warre’s Warrior Port)
Teaspoonful of Crushed Chocolate (heaping teaspoon of Scharffen Berger cocoa powder)
Shake well and strain into medium size glass.
Yes, well, again, I am not sure what might be meant by “crushed chocolate”. I couldn’t [...]
3 July, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | 5 comments
Chocolate Cocktail (No. 1)
1 Teaspoonful of Powdered Chocolate (heaping teaspoon of Scharffen Berger cocoa powder)
1 Egg
1 Liqueur Glass Maraschino (1 oz Luxardo Maraschino)
1 Liqueur Glass Yellow Chartreuse (1 oz Yellow Chartreuse)
(dash Pierre Ferrand Cognac)
Shake well and strain into large glass.
Now, I’m not sure if “Chocolate Powder” means something other than cocoa powder; but, if you’re [...]
2 July, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | 3 comments
Chinese Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
3 Dashes Maraschino (1/2 bar spoon Luxardo Maraschino)
3 Dashes Curacao (1/2 bar spoon Senior Curacao of Curacao)
1/3 Grenadine (1, well 3/4, oz Home Made Grenadine)
2/3 Jamaica Rum (2 oz Appleton Estate V/X Rum)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
No idea why this is called the “Chinese Cocktail”. From the ingredients, it [...]
1 July, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments
Chicago Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
1 Dash Curacao (Senior Curacao of Curacao)
2/3 Brandy (1 1/2 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Frost edge of glass with castor sugar and fill with Champagne (Cremant de Limoux, J. Laurens Brut).
Probably a lot easier to frost the glass with caster sugar before you strain [...]
30 June, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | 2 comments
Cherry Mixture Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters (Very Healthy Dash)
1 Dash Maraschino (Luxardo Maraschino Cocktail)
1/2 French Vermouth (2 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/2 Italian Vermouth (2 oz Carpano Antica)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass (Build over cracked ice in a double old fashioned glass, stir briefly to chill). Serve with cherry (3 Amarena Toschi Cherries).
A bit [...]
29 June, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments
Cherry Blossom (6 people)
To a glass half full of cracked ice add a tablespoon of dry Curacao (dash senior Curacao of Curacao), one of Lemon Juice (1 TBSP fresh), one of Grenadine (Fee’s American Beauty Grenadine), 2 1/2 glasses of Cherry Brandy (1 oz Cherry Heering Liqueur) and 2 of brandy (1 oz Pierre Ferrand [...]
28 June, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments
Charles Cocktail
1/2 Italian Vermouth (1 1/2 oz Carpano Antica Vermouth)
1/2 Brandy (1 1/2 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac)
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass.
This is the only known authentic Jacobite Cocktail.
Interesting! This seems to indicate that this cocktail was named for Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Maria Stuart [...]
27 June, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments
This is the first of what I hope is an ongoing series on the Underhill-Lounge.
I experimented by asking the bartender at Montgomery Place to make me a Bombay Cocktail No. 2 earlier this year; but, this just seemed to result in a grumpy bartender.
To make it less of a shock, I thought I would contact [...]
26 June, 2008 (08:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments
C.F.H. Cocktail
1/6 Grenadine (1/2 oz homemade)
1/6 Cederlund’s Swedish Punch (1/2 oz Facile Swedish Punch)
1/6 Calvados (1/2 oz Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy)
1/6 Lemon Juice (1/2 oz fresh lemon juice)
1/3 Burrough’s Beefeater Gin (1 oz Boodle’s Gin)
(Shake and strain into cocktail glass)
Oddly, this recipe has no method instructions and I couldn’t dig up anything on the name.
Anyway, [...]
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