Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Bobby Burns Cocktail.*
1/2 Italian Vermouth (1 1/2 oz Carpano Antica)
1/2 Scotch Whisky (1 1/2 oz Compass Box Asyla)
3 Dashes Benedictine (Barspoon Benedictine)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
*One of the very best Whisky Cocktails. A very fast mover on Saint Andrews Day.
I am inclined to agree with [...]
Blood and Sand Cocktail
1/4 Orange Juice (3/4 oz fresh Blood Orange Juice)
1/4 Scotch Whisky (3/4 oz Compass Box Asyla)
1/4 Cherry Brandy (3/4 oz Massenez Creme de Griotte)
1/4 Italian Vermouth (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This one is supposed to be named after the 1922 movie of the same name featuring [...]
Barton Special Cocktail*
1/4 Calvados or Apple Brandy. (3/4 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
1/4 Scotch Whisky. (3/4 oz Compass Box Asyla)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake (it would be proper to stir, but it really probably doesn’t matter) well and strain into cocktail glass.
*What has Bruce Barton got to do with this?
Bruce Barton was an [...]
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 [...]
Alice, Mine Cocktail
1/2 Italian Vermouth. (Generous 1 oz Italian Vermouth)
1/2 Russians Kummel. (Generous 1 oz Norwegian Aquavit, Dash Simple Syrup)
2 Dashes Scotch Whisky. (teaspoon Scotch Whisky)
Shake (Stir, please!) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Not having Kummel, a caraway liqueur, I cheated here and substituted Aquavit, a caraway flavored spirit.
It is all a bit confusing, in [...]
