Underhill-Lounge

In the quest to make a Swedish Punch Clone, I had combined two Jerry Thomas recipes and made a variation using Sri Lankan Arrack. While interesting, I later discovered it wasn’t very Similar to Swedish Punch.
I re-used the same procedure recently using Batavia Arrack.
This was what I did:
Underhill Punsch II
1 cup Appleton V/X Rum
1/2 [...]

Brandy Gump
1 Hooker of Brandy (1 1/2 oz Korbel VSOP)
The Juice of 1 Lemon (about an ounce)
2 Dashes Grenadine (1 generous teaspoon Fee’s American Beauty)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Woo, this is tart and pink. I didn’t have any problem finishing it, but it’s kind of like one of those really sour candies. Bracing.
This [...]

Brandy Crusta Cocktail

Use small wine glass. 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. Fill glass with cracked ice.
3 dashes Maraschino.
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
4 Dashes Lemon Juice.
1/4 Curacao
3/4 Brandy.
Stir well and strain into prepared [...]

Boomerang Cocktail
1 Dash Lemon Juice
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
1/3 French Vermouth (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Canadian Club Whisky (1 oz Forty Creek Barrel Select)
1/3 Swedish Punch (1 oz homemade Sri Langkan Arrack Punch)
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze lemon peel over glass.)
Tasty; but, the Canadian Whisky didn’t seem to [...]

Bombay Cocktail (No. 1)
4 Dashes Lemon Juice
3/4 Wineglass East Indian Punch (1 1/2 oz Ponche Raja)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
About “East Indian Punch” cocktaildb sez, “Defunct. Likely to have been a brand or other descriptive designation for a Swedish Punsch-style liqueur.”
When I was questing for Swedish Punsch a local liquor store suggested I [...]

Bolo Cocktail
The Juice of 1/4 Lemon or 1/2 Lime (1/2 Lime)
The Juice of 1/4 Orange (Valencia)
1/2 Wineglass Bacardi Rum (1 generous oz of Flor de Cana Extra Dry)
1 Teaspoonful Sugar (1 scant teaspoon caster sugar)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Lime Wheel.)
Quite delicious! Kind of a “lite” Daiquiri. Certainly quite refreshing and tart.
One [...]

Blue Train Cocktail
1/4 Lemon Juice. (1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
1/4 Cointreau. (1/2 oz Cointreau)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Plymouth Gin)
1 Dash of Blue Vegetable Extract. (1 drop Blue Coloring)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Lemon Twist.)
Aside from being blue, this cocktail has several close relatives. Among them are the Sidecar, the Margarita, and [...]

Blue Devil Cocktail
/2 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Boodles Gin)
1/4 Lemon Juice or Lime Juice (3/4 oz lemon Juice)
1/4 Maraschino (3/4 oz Luxardo Maraschino)
1 Dash Blue Vegetable Extract (1 Drop Blue Food Coloring)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
First, the Blue Devil does have a great name.
However, I can’t quite figure it out. It falls [...]

Blood and Sand Cocktail
1/4 Orange Juice (3/4 oz fresh Blood Orange Juice)
1/4 Scotch Whisky (3/4 oz Compass Box Asyla)
1/4 Cherry Brandy (3/4 oz Massenez Creme de Griotte)
1/4 Italian Vermouth (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This one is supposed to be named after the 1922 movie of the same name featuring [...]

Biter Cocktail (6 People)
3 Glasses of Gin (3 oz Tanqueray Gin)
1 1/2 Glasses of Lemon Juice slightly sweetened (1 1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
1 1/2 Glasses of Green Chartreuse ( 1 1/2 oz Green Chartreuse)
Before shaking add a Dash of Absinthe (Verte de Fougerolles)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
As usual with these 6 person cocktails, [...]