Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Cats-Eye Cocktail (6 people)
1/2 Glass Fresh Lemonade (1/4 oz Lemon Juice, 1/2 teaspoon sugar)
1/2 Glass Water (1/4 oz water)
2 Glasses Gin (1 oz Boodles Gin)
1 Dessertspoonful Kirsch (Dash Trimbach Kirsch)
1/2 Glass Cointreau (1/4 oz Cointreau)
Not quite 2 Glasses French Vermouth (Not quite 1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glasses. Serve [...]
When I was thinking about a Mixology Monday drink a while ago, it reminded me of my parents, and specifically my Dad. My parents took their honeymoon in the Bahamas. It was there that my Father discovered both the wonder and pain of strong drink. I don’t know the details; but, for him, whatever cocktail [...]
Campden Cocktail
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Plymouth Gin)
1/4 Cointreau. (1/2 oz Cointreau)
1/4 Kina Lillet. (1/2 oz Cocchi Americano)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Lemon Peel.)
It’s not exactly awful, but close.
I know it would be awful with a questionable gin and modern Lillet Blanc.
To be honest, it is only the edgy quinine [...]
Calvados Cocktail (6 People)
2 Glasses Calvados (1 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
2 Glasses Orange Juice (1 oz Orange Juice)
1 Glass Cointreau (1/2 oz Cointreau)
1 Glass Orange Bitters (1/2 oz Aperol)
Add plenty of ice and shake carefully
Turned this into a single serving drink.
Two main puzzles here.
First, I would expect something called “Calvados Cocktail” to be a Calvados [...]
Buds Special Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
1/3 Sweet Cream (3/4 oz Whipping Cream)
2/3 Cointreau (1 1/2 oz Cointreau)
Stir (What? Shake!) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Orange Peel.)
I guess I had an idle hope that this would be something like a Creamsicle in drink form.
After tasting it, my response was, “Bleah! Bud, man, what were [...]
Broadway Smile Cocktail
1/3 Creme de Cassis (Brizard Cassis de Bourdeaux)
1/3 Swedish Punch (Facile Swedish Punch)
1/3 Cointreau
Use liqueur glass and pour carefully so that ingredients do not mix.
Of the layered liqueur cocktails I’ve tried so far, I have to say this is my favorite. Unfortunately, it involves an ingredient you’re going to need to make yourself, [...]
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 [...]
Block and Fall Cocktail
1/6 Anis del Oso or Absinthe (1/2 oz Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
1/6 Calvados (1/2 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
1/3 Brandy (1 oz Korbel VSPOP)
1/3 Cointreau (3/4 oz Cointreau)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Another Savoy sweet-and-deadly in the style of the Between the Sheets. This one raises the ante slightly over [...]
Blanche Cocktail
1/3 Anisette (1/2 oz Anis del Mono Dulce or as Mrs. Underhill calls it, “Devil Juice”)
1/3 White Curacao (1/2 oz Brizard Orange Curacao)
1/3 Cointreau (1/2 oz Cointreau)
(dash Regan’s Orange Bitters)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Still trying to make my peace with these pesky after dinner cocktails. Imagining they are intended to [...]
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 [...]
