Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
C.F.H. Cocktail
1/6 Grenadine (1/2 oz homemade)
1/6 Cederlund’s Swedish Punch (1/2 oz Facile Swedish Punch)
1/6 Calvados (1/2 oz Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy)
1/6 Lemon Juice (1/2 oz fresh lemon juice)
1/3 Burrough’s Beefeater Gin (1 oz Boodle’s Gin)
(Shake and strain into cocktail glass)
Oddly, this recipe has no method instructions and I couldn’t dig up anything on the name.
Anyway, [...]
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 [...]
One of the drinks included in “Food & Wine Cocktails 2008″ is Martin Cate’s version of the classic Trader Vic drink the Fog Cutter
Taking the opportunity of a friend’s band (The awesome Project Pimento!) playing at Forbidden Island, I stopped by to try the drink in question.
Le Fog Cutter. Tasty! I’d not [...]
Casino Cocktail
2 Dashes Maraschino (2/3 tsp Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur)
2 Dashes Orange Bitters (generous couple splashes Regan’s Orange Bitters)
2 Dashes Lemon Juice (2/3 tsp Lemon Juice)
1 Glass Old Tom Gin (2 oz Junipero Gin and a dash simple)
Stir well and add cherry.
Skipped Cherry and am quite cheery about it.
An enjoyably odd cocktail. One of the [...]
Caruso Cocktail
1/3 Dry Gin (1 oz Boodles gin)
1/3 French Vermouth (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Green Creme de Menthe (1/2 oz Brizard Creme de Menthe)
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass.
I did slightly adjust the proportions here.
Still, I expected to really dislike this drink.
Oddly, I didn’t, and ended up finishing it.
Living in [...]
Cape Cocktail
1/3 Dry Gin (1 oz Boodles)
1/3 Caperitif (1 oz Dubonnet Blanc)
1/3 Orange Juice (1 oz Fresh Squeezed)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Again experimenting with Dubonnet Blanc as a Caperitif replacement.
The cocktail is pleasant enough; but, significantly improved by the addition of a few drops of Regan’s Orange Bitters.
This post is one in a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cabaret Cocktail
1 Dash Absinthe (Verte de Fougerolles)
1 Dash Angostura Bitters
1/2 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Boodles Gin)
1/2 Caperitif (1 1/2 oz Dubonnet Blanc)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Add a Cherry.
Boodles and Absinthe go very well together. As I am well known for enjoying Martini variaions, it will probably be no [...]
It’s odd, I still find otherwise sensible people parroting the “thujone hype” about Wormwood and Absinthe.
A couple points which I will repeat.
Wormwood contains a compound called Thujone. This compound is toxic in large doses, (as is most everything you can possibly consume, including water.) Experiments with lab animals show large doses may cause [...]
