Underhill-Lounge

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.
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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
(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
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…
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Berry Wall Cocktail
1/2 Dry Gin.
1/2 Italian Vermouth.
4 Dashes Curacao.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
For a long time this cocktail’s name caught my eye and I wondered about it. A Martini made with sweet vermouth. A Martinez, really. Why call it a “Berry Wall”? No berries [...]

Baron Cocktail
6 Dashes Curacao. (3 teaspoons Brizard Orange Curacao)
2 Dashes Italian Vermouth. (1/2 teaspoon Carpano Antica Vermouth)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Tanqueray Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Couple dashes of Regan’s orange Bitters livened this up a bit. Still nothing earth shaking. A slightly [...]

Barney Barnato Cocktail
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1 Dash Curacao. (1 barspoon Marie Brizard Curacao)
1/2 Caperitif. (1 1/2 oz Lillet Blanc)
1/2 Brandy. (1 1/2 oz Germain-Robin Fine Alembic Brandy)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
Sometimes you get nothing when researching cocktails, and sometimes it feels like you’ve stepped into the deep end.
Barney Barnato was born Barnett Isaacs [...]

Approve Cocktail
3/4 Wineglass Rye or Canadian Club Whisky. (1 1/2 oz Sazerac Straight Rye)
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters.
2 Dashes Curacao. (1/2 teaspoon Brizard Curacao)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into wineglass. Squeeze lemon and orange peel on top.
Oddly, when I look back at my notes for this one, I said I would have preferred a glass [...]