Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
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, [...]
Big Boy Cocktail
1/2 Brandy (1 1/2 oz Korbel VSOP)
1/4 Cointreau (3/4 oz Cointreau)
1/4 Sirop-de-Citron (3/4 oz Homemade Limoncello)
(dash lemon juice)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
After finding a couple DIY recipes for “Sirop-de-Citron” I realized the procedure for making it is about the same as for limoncello, so, instead of buying a bottle of Monin [...]
Speaking of Mr. Darcy O’Neil…
A couple years ago, Darcy published an article about Arrack. Being as I thought Arrack was, at the time, completely unavailable to those of us in North America, I was quick to send him a note asking where on earth he’d found it.
Batavia Arrack is important because it is used as [...]
Between-The-Sheets Cocktail
1 Dash Lemon Juice.
1/3 Brandy. (3/4 oz Germain-Robin Fine Alambic Brandy)
1/3 Cointreau. (3/4 oz Cointreau)
1/3 Bacardi Rum. (3/4 oz Flor de Cana Rum)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
So here’s the thing about the Between the Sheets. Aside from that dash of Lemon Juice, it is made up entirely of 80 proof spirits. [...]
Bennett Cocktail
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters.
1/4 Lime Juice. (Generous 1/2 oz Lime Juice)
3/4 Dry Gin. (Generous 1 1/2 oz Tanqueray Gin)
(Dash Rich Simple Syrup)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I couldn’t quite hang with this one without any sweetener at all. But, I kept it to a minimum, so as not to turn it into [...]
Bass Wyatt Cocktail
(5 People)
Beat up 4 (1 XL) Eggs, and add
4 Glasses of Dry Gin (4 oz Tanqueray Gin)
2/3 Glass of Cherry Brandy (2/3 oz Massenez Creme de Griotte)
1/2 Glass Lemon Juice (1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
4 Dashes Orange Bitters (2 Dashes Regan’s Orange Bitters)
1/2 Tablespoon of Powdered Sugar (1/2 teaspoon Caster sugar)
1 Tablespoon of Vanilla [...]
Balm Cocktail
(6 People)
1/2 Glass Orange Juice. (1/2 oz fresh squeezed)
1/2 Glass Cointreau (1/2 oz)
3 Glasses sherry. (3 oz Lustau Don Nuno Dry Oloroso)
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Regan’s)
2 Dashes Pimento Dram liqueur. (Homemade)
Fill up the shaker with cracked ice shake and serve with an olive.
The olive garnish doesn’t make any sense to me. Also not sure [...]
Bacardi Special Cocktail*
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine. (Homemade)
1/3 Burroughs Beefeater Gin. (3/4 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
2/3 Bacardi Rum. (1 1/2 oz Flor de Cana Extra Dry Gin)
The Juice of 1/2 Lime.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
*Made famous by Karl K. Kitchen, the well known New York Newspaper Columnist.
This is tastier than it really has any business being. [...]
Aviation Cocktail
1/3 Lemon Juice. (3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
2 Dashes Maraschino. (1/2 tsp. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur)
[2 Dashes Creme de Violette] (1/2 tsp. Rothman and Winter Creme de Violette Liqueur)
(1/2 teaspoon Rich Simple Syrup)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Garnish with cherry.)
In one of the Savoy Cocktail Book’s [...]
Artist’s (Special) Cocktail
1/3 Whisky. (3/4 oz Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey)
1/3 Sherry. (3/4 oz Lustau Solera Reserva Dry Oloroso Sherry “Don Nuño”)
1/6 Lemon Juice. (1/3-1/2 oz lime juice)
1/6 Groseille Syrup. (bar spoon D’Arbo Red Currant Preserves)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This is the genuine ‘Ink of Inspiration’ imbibed at the Bal Bullier Paris. The recipe [...]
