Classic Cocktails “If you were to ask me if I'd Aviation Cocktail ever had the bad luck to 2 ounces London dry gin miss my daily cocktail, I'd ½ ounce Maraschino liqueur have to say that I doubt it; ½ ounce lemon juice where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.” Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with Luis Bunuel a Maraschino Cherry.
Bellini
1½ ounces white peach puree 4 ounces Champagne
25 Preeminent Preparations (Optional: ½-ounce peach liqueur)
Gently stir ingredients in a mixing glass and strain into a champagne flute. Optional: float a half-ounce of peach liqueur.
Blood and Sand
¾ ounce Scotch whisky ¾ ounce Cherry Heering Collins (Tom, John or Vodka) Gimlet ¾ ounce Italian sweet vermouth ¾ ounce fresh-squeezed orange juice 1½ ounces London dry gin, bourbon, or 2½ ounces London dry gin vodka ½ ounce preserved lime juice Shake all ingredients with ice and strain 1 ounce simple syrup into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with ¾ ounce lemon juice Shake ingredients with ice and strain into an orange peel. club soda a chilled cocktail glass or over ice in an old fashioned. Garnish with lime wedge. Bloody Mary Shake spirits, sugar and lemon juice with ice, strain into an chilled collins glass and Gin Fizz 1½ ounces vodka fill with soda. Garnish with a cherry and 1½ ounces London dry gin 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce an orange slice. ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice 4 dashes Tabasco sauce 1 ounce simple syrup salt and pepper Cosmopolitan Club soda ¼ ounce fresh lemon juice 4 ounces tomato juice 1½ ounces citrus Vodka Shake and strain into a highball glass. Fill ¾ ounce Cointreau with club soda. No garnish. Combine all ingredients in mixing glass ¼ ounce fresh lime juice and roll back and forth to mix. Strain 1 ounce cranberry juice Irish Coffee into an chilled goblet. Garnish with a wedge of lemon, olives and a stick of Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into 1½ ounces Irish whiskey celery. Celery salt and horseradish are a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an 1 ounce brown sugar syrup optional. orange peel. 4 ounces coffee lightly whipped unsweetened cream Caipirinha (Caipirissima with Daiquiri Rum or Caipiroska with Vodka) Combine first three ingredients in an 1½ ounce white rum Irish coffee glass. Ladle one inch of 2 ounces cachaça ¾ ounce simple syrup cream on top. ¾ ounce simple syrup ¾ ounce fresh lime juice ½ lime, quartered Mai Tai Shake all ingredients with ice and strain Chill a rocks glass with cracked ice. into a small cocktail glass. Note: Purists 2 ounces aged rum Muddle lime and simple syrup in a will hold out for the original recipe: juice ¾ ounce lime juice mixing glass. Add cachaça and the ice of half a lime, ½ teaspoon superfine 1 teaspoon orgeat syrup into the mixing glass and shake well. sugar, 2-ounces rum (assembled in that Pour the entire contents back into the order, stirring the sugar into the lime Shake thoroughly with ice and strain into rocks glass and serve. Garnish with an juice before adding the rum). an old fashioned glass filled with ice. orange peel. Garnish with lime wheel and mint sprig.
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2 ounces rye or bourbon whiskey 1½ ounces white rum 2½ ounces Scotch whisky 1 ounce Italian sweet vermouth ¾ ounce fresh lime juice ¾ ounces sweet vermouth 2 dashes Angostura Bitters ¾ ounce simple syrup Dash Angostura Bitters 1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing 1 ounce soda Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass and stir. Strain into a chilled glass and stir as you would a Martini. cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry or a In a tall mixing glass muddle mint leaves Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and twist. You may substitute dry vermouth with simple syrup. Add lime juice and garnish with a lemon peel. for a dry Manhattan with a lemon peel rum and fill with ice. Shake vigorously garnish, or half sweet and half dry for a and strain over fresh ice into a highball Sazerac “perfect” Manhattan. glass. Top with soda and garnish with a sprig of mint. 2 ounces rye whiskey Margarita [1930-1940] 2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters Negroni Splash of absinthe
25 Preeminent Preparations 2 ounces 100% agave tequila ½ ounce simple syrup 1 ounce Cointreau 1 ounce London dry gin Herbsaint Anise Liqueur ¾ ounce fresh lime juice 1 ounce Campari ½ ounce of agave syrup (optional) 1 ounce sweet vermouth Chill one rocks glass while preparing the Coarse salt Soda (optional) drink in another. Splash the Herbsaint Lime wedge into the second glass, swirl it, then pour it Combine all ingredients in an chilled old out. Add rye, syrup, and bitters and stir Combine first three ingredients in a fashioned glass and stir. Garnish with an with ice to chill. Strain into the chilled mixing glass with ice. Shake well and orange peel. Top with an ounce or two of rocks glass and garnish with a lemon strain into a chilled, salted cocktail glass. soda or serve straight up, in which case it peel. should be stirred with ice and strained Dry Martini (the traditional recipe) into a chilled cocktail glass. Sidecar
1½ ounces London dry gin Old Fashioned 1½ ounces cognac 1½ ounces dry vermouth ¾ ounce Cointreau 1-2 dashes orange bitters 2 ounces bourbon ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice 3 dashes Angostura Bitters Stir all ingredients with ice to chill and an 1 teaspoon sugar Shake all ingredients with ice and strain orange or lemon twist on top. Substitute 2 orange slices into a chilled old fashioned glass or sweet vermouth for a Martinez. 2 maraschino cherries cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange splash of soda peel. Note: If served “up” strain into a Dry Martini small cocktail glass with a sugared rim. Carefully muddle the sugar, Angostura, 3 ounces London dry gin (or vodka) one orange, one cherry, and a splash of Stinger ⅛ ounce dry vermouth soda in the bottom of an old fashioned glass. Remove the orange rind and add 2 ounces cognac Prepare a tall mixing glass with ice. Pour bourbon, ice, and soda. Garnish with a 1 ounce white crème de Menthe vermouth over ice and swirl to season, fresh orange slice and a cherry. then strain vermouth off the ice. Pour Note: The old-fashioned Old Fashioned Shake both ingredients with ice and gin or vodka over seasoned ice and stir to recipe omits the fruit. Simply muddle the strain into an old fashioned glass filled chill. Strain into a chilled martini glass. sugar and bitters in a splash of soda until with crushed ice or serve up in a chilled Garnish with an olive. the sugar is dissolved, forming a syrup. cocktail glass. Note that this is an Add the whiskey and the ice, and stir. exception to the rule that drinks with Mint Julep Garnish with a lemon twist. only liquors and liqueur should be stirred. ½ ounce of simple syrup Pisco Sour 2 sprigs of mint Whiskey Sour 2 ounces bourbon 2 ounces Pisco 1 ounce fresh lime juice 2 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey Gently bruise one sprig of mint in the 1 ounce simple syrup 1 ounce simple syrup bottom of a highball glass with simple 1 small egg white ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice syrup. Add half of the bourbon and half Several drops of Angostura Bitters fill with crushed ice. Swirl with a Shake all ingredients with ice and strain barspoon until the outside of the glass into an old-fashioned glass or a special frosts. Add more crushed ice and the Shake all ingredients with ice and strain sour glass. Garnish with an orange slice remaining bourbon and stir again. into a small cocktail glass. Garnish with and a cherry speared on a cocktail pick Garnish with a sprig of mint. several drops of Angostura Bitters on top (known as a flag). of the foam.
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