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Eye-Opener Cocktail
The Yolk of 1 Fresh Egg.
1 Teaspoonful Powdered Sugar. (scant teaspoon Caster Sugar)
2 Dashes Absinthe. (1/2 tsp Verte de Fougerolles)
2 Dashes Curacao. (1/2 tsp Brizard Orange Curacao)
2 Dashes Crème de Noyau. (1/2 tsp Amaretto di Saschira)
1 Liqueur Glass Rum. (1 1/2 oz Inner Circle Green Rum)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Sadly, my schemes [...]

“Everything But” Cocktail
1/4 Whisky. (3/4 oz Compass Box blended Asyla Scotch Whisky)
1/4 Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
1/4 Lemon Juice. (3/4 oz Lemon Juice)
1/4 Orange Juice. (3/4 oz Fresh Orange Juice)
1 Egg.
1 Teaspoonful of Apricot brandy. (1 teaspoon Rothman & Winter Marillen Apricot Eau-de-Vie)
Powdered Sugar. (scant teaspoon caster sugar)
(Combine ingredients in shaker without ice and shake [...]

“Everybody’s Irish” Cocktail
3 Dashes Green Mint. (1/2 tsp. Brizard Creme de Menthe)
6 Dashes Green Chartreuse. (1 tsp. Green Chartreuse)
Irish Whiskey. (2 oz Red Breast Irish Whiskey)
(Stir well with ice, strain into a cocktail glass and…) Add a Green olive.
Created to mark, and now in great demand on, St. Patrick’s Day. The green olive suspended [...]

Eton Blazer Cocktail
The Juice of 1/2 Lemon.
1/2 Tablespoonful of Powdered Sugar. (1 teaspoon Caster Sugar)
1/4 Kirsch. (1/2 oz Kirsch)
3/4 Plymouth Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well and strain into long tumbler; fill up with sodawater.
Michael Jackson, in his “Bar and Cocktail Companion,” says, “A metaphorical name, no doubt, since Eton College doesn’t have a [...]

Elk Cocktail
1/2 Prunelle Brandy. (1 1/2 oz mixture 1/2 Trimbach Kirsch, 1/2 Prune Syrup)
2 Dashes French Vermouth. (Dolin French Vermouth)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Beefeater Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Garnish with a prune.)
When I first made this I thought that “Prunelle” was a difficult to find liqueur made from Prune [...]

This is the Fourth in an ongoing series of bartender features on the Underhill-lounge.
Previously, I had experimented by asking the bartender at Montgomery Place to make me a Bombay Cocktail No. 2, but this just seemed to result in a grumpy bartender.
To make it less of a shock, I thought I would contact some local [...]

Duppy Cocktail
Pour 4 1/2 glasses of Whisky (2 oz Asyla Scotch) into a large glass and soak in this a few cloves (for an hour or two). Add 5 or 6 drops of Orange Bitters (Healthy Dash Regan’s, Healthy Dash Fee’s), and lastly put in 1 1/2 glasses of Curacao (3/4 oz Brizard Curacao). Place [...]

Edit: Retranslated in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Dunlop Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1/3 Sherry. (3/4 oz Don Nuno Dry Oloroso Sherry)
2/3 Rum. (1 1/2 oz Diplomatico Rum)
Stir well an’ strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze lemon peel o’er glass)
Pretty wide open drink here on th’ ingredient fore. At least ‘t specifies which type o’ [...]

Dunhill’s Special Cocktail
(6 People)
In a shaker filled with cracked Ice place a spoonful of Curacao (Dash Brizard Orange Curacao), 2 glasses of Gin (1 oz Beefeater Gin), 2 glasses of Sherry (1 oz Fino Sherry), 2 glasses of French Vermouth (1 oz Dolin Vermouth). Stir thoroughly with a spoon, shake, strain, and serve. Add [...]

Duchess Cocktail
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso)
1/3 Absinthe. (3/4 oz Marteau Verte Classic)
Shake (or stir?) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Not the most wildly appealing looking cocktail. The combination of the louched Absinthe and Italian Vermouth gives it a murky brown tan color. Kind of like tea [...]