Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Café De Paris Cocktail
The White of 1 Egg
3 Dashes Anisette (1 Barspoon Anis del Mono)
1 Teaspoonful of Fresh Cream
1 Glass of Dry Gin (2 oz Boodles Gin)
Shake well and strain into medium size glass.
Kind of underimpressed with this one. Maybe I overshook and it got a bit diluted? Anyway, I felt like the anis could [...]
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 [...]
The Barbary Coast Cocktail
1/4 Gin. (1 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
1/4 Scotch Whisky. (1 oz Compass Box Asyla Scotch Whisky)
1/4 Crème de Cacao. (1 oz Bols White Creme de Cacao)
1/4 Cream. (1 oz Cream)
Cracked Ice.
Serve in a highball glass. (Fill highball glass with crushed ice, build ingredients in glass, stir until outside of glass frosts over.)
Most other [...]
Barbara Cocktail
1/4 Fresh Cream. (1/2 oz Cream)
1/4 Crème de Cacao. (1/2 oz Bols White Crème de Cacao)
1/2 Vodka. (1 oz Rain Vodka)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Shake on some Cocoa Powder to garnish.)
This Alexander variation is one of the only 4 uses of Vodka in the Savoy Cocktail book. I admit, I prefer [...]
A while ago I posted the series of Alexander Cocktails: Alexander Cocktail (No. 1), Alexander Cocktail (No. 2), and Alexander’s Sister.
I didn’t post an original cocktail of my own, that I liked best of the bunch. Sorry, Mr. Craddock, we always love our children the best.
But, since Marleigh over at Sloshed! is posting about [...]
