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Canadian Cocktail

16 June, 2008 (12:00) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments

Canadian Cocktail
The Juice of 1/4 Lemon
1/4 Tablespoonful Powdered Sugar (no thanks, sweet enough already)
1 Liqueur Glass Curacao (about 1 1/4 oz Senior Curacao of Curacao)
3 Dashes Jamaica Rum (1/4 oz Inner Circle Green)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
The big question here was what rum to use.
I knew it had to be something with enough [...]

Byculla Cocktail

4 June, 2008 (06:12) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments

Byculla Cocktail
1 Liqueur Glass Ginger (3/4 oz Canton Ginger Liqueur)
1 Liqueur Glass Curacao (3/4 oz Brizard Orange Curacao)
1 Liqueur Glass Port (3/4 oz Warre’s Warrior Port)
1 Liqueur Glass Sherry (3/4 oz Lustau Don Nuno Dry Oloroso)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Too sweet to be anything other than a dessert cocktail. I like [...]

Brandy Cocktail

14 May, 2008 (06:17) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments

Brandy Cocktail
2 Dashes Curacao (1 barspoon Senior Curacao)
3/4 Wineglass Brandy (1 1/2 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre)
(1 dash Regan’s Orange Bitters)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
Couldn’t resist adding a dash of orange bitters. It is supposed to be a cocktail, after all!
Even more than the Brain-storm this is just about the booze. If you enjoy [...]

Brandy Crusta

9 May, 2008 (07:08) | Savoy Cocktail Book | 1 comment

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 [...]

Bosom Caresser Cocktail

8 May, 2008 (07:22) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments

Bosom Caresser Cocktail*
The Yolk of 1 Egg
1 Teaspoonful of Grenadine (uh, oops, I forgot the grenadine)
1/3 Curacao (3/4 oz Brizard Orange Curacao)
2/3 Brandy (1 1/2 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre)
(dash Regan’s orange bitters)
Shake well and strain into medium size glass. (Squeeze Orange Peel on top.)
*This might be called the “Bobby Jones” or the “Francis Ouimet” Cocktail, [...]

Booster Cocktail

7 May, 2008 (06:26) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments

Booster Cocktail
4 Dashes Curacao (teaspoon Brizard Orange Curacao)
The White of 1 Egg
1 Glass Brandy (2 oz Korbel VSOP)
Shake well and strain into medium size glass. Nutmeg on top.
Shoulda been more generous with the Curacao or maybe used a nicer brandy. Dash of bitters? Champagne?
Certainly no Pisco Sour. Drinkable; but, not that interesting.
This post is [...]

Bombay Cocktail No. 2

5 May, 2008 (07:09) | Savoy Cocktail Book | 1 comment

Bombay Cocktail (No. 2)
1 Dash Absinthe (sadly Pernod was all they had)
3 Dashes Curacao (didn’t see brand, might have been triple sec)
1/2 Brandy (Courvoisier VSOP)
1/4 Italian Vermouth (didn’t see)
1/4 French Vermouth (didn’t see)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass
Whenever I travel, I usually send a note to some friends asking for recommendations for cocktail bars [...]

Blues Cocktail

1 May, 2008 (07:05) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments

Blues Cocktail
(6 People)
Take 4 Glasses of Whisky. (4 oz Bernheim Wheat Whiskey)
1 Glass of Curacao. (1 oz Brizard Orange Curacao)
Incorporate 1 Teaspoonful of Syrup of Prunes. (1/2 teaspoon Prune Syrup)
Pour out over plenty of cracked ice and shake (stir, please) for longer and more thoroughly than usual. Serve very cold.
This Cocktail removes the Blues if [...]

Blue Bird Cocktail

24 April, 2008 (07:10) | Savoy Cocktail Book | No comments

Blue Bird Cocktail
4 Dashes Angostura Bitters
3/4 Wineglassful of Gin (2 oz Tanqueray)
5 Dashes Orange Curacao (Teaspoon Brizard Orange Curacao)
Shake, (stir, please,) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze Orange Peel over drink.)
A 19th Century style Gin Cock-tail (Link to Jerry Thomas’ recipe on Art of the Drink) by any other name…
This post is one [...]

Pale Blue Eyes

19 April, 2008 (12:45) | Original Cocktail | 2 comments

Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But mostly you just make me mad
Baby, you just make me mad
My friend Lance from My Life on the Rocks reminded me that for a Blue Curacao drink challenge I made another cocktail based on the Blanche.

Pale Blue Eyes
2 oz Plymouth Gin
1/4 oz [...]

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