Appendix I: Cocktail recipes The recipes here have been arranged in five groups: classics, contemporary, modern, old reliables and non-alcoholic. For each recipe, you will find its category, ingredients, glassware, method of preparation and the appropriate garnish (if any). The origins are also given, where they are known. Every bartender or upcoming cocktail maker should memorize these recipes and be able to recall them as needed. Category abbreviations Americano (pre) Aft: after dinner cocktail, sweet type 3cl Red vermouth Lng: long drink, thirst quenching cool 3cl Campari Bitter type, includes all day Mix the ingredients directly in an old fash- Pre: pre-dinner cocktail, aperitif type ioned glass with ice cubes, top up soda water Pmu: pick-me-up, hangover or ailment- and garnish with half slice of orange. Invented cure type. in Gaspare Campari’s Bar, Milan, Italy in 1861. In some recipes they also add a twist of lemon. Glassware sizes Angel Face (all day) Old fashioned glass, also known as low ball or rocks glass (30cl) 3cl Gin Cocktail glass, Martini type (12cl size) 3cl Apricot Brandy Highball glass, Collins, slim Jim (30cl) 3cl Calvados Goblet glass (30cl) Pour all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Wine goblet glass (24cl) Champagne flute (24cl). Aviation (all day) 4.5cl Gin Always make the cocktails to the same 1.5cl Marachino (white) recipes every time. 1.5cl Lemon juice The Unforgettable Classics Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a stemmed red cherry. Alexander (aft) William Grimes New York Times reporter and famous cocktail author’s favourite cocktail. 3cl Fresh cream The original Aviation had both Maraschino 3cl Crème de cacao brown and Creme Yvette. 3cl Cognac Bacardi Cocktail (pre) Sprinkle fresh ground nutmeg on top. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Originally 4.5cl Bacardi Rum based on gin, known as the Princess Mary 2cl Lime juice cocktail, created in Feb 1922, London, England 1cl Grenadine syrup to mark the occasion of Princess Mary’s Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish wedding. with a red cherry. According to a famous ruling of the New York Supreme Court in 1936, a genuine Bacardi Cocktail can only be made with this rum. 324 Principles and Practice of Bar and Beverage Management: The Drinks Handbook Between the Sheets (all day) cocktail Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with 3cl white rum ice. Stir and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a fresh mint leaves in the drink. 3cl Cognac 3cl Triple Sec Dry Martini (pre) 2cl Fresh lemon juice 6cl Gin Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. 1cl Dry Vermouth Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice Casino (all day) cubes. Stir well and strain into chilled martini 4cl Old Tom Gin glass. Squeeze oil from lemon peel onto the 1cl Maraschino drink, or garnish with olive. 1cl Orange Bitters Variations 1cl fresh lemon juice If shaken it becomes a Bradford cocktail. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish Sometimes a Premium Martini will be with lemon twist and a maraschino cherry. requested, if so use premium base spirits. Vodka Martini – use Vodka instead of Gin, Clover Club (all day) Sweet Martini add red vermouth instead of 4.5cl Gin dry vermouth and garnish with red cherry 1.5cl Raspberry syrup Perfect Martini – add 1cl Red vermouth 1.5cl fresh lemon juice to the Dry Martini cocktail , garnish with A few drops of egg white lemon zest or red cherry. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Gin Fizz (lng) The poet W. B Yeats loved this cocktail when 4cl Gin he first tasted it as the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York in 1911. 3cl Lemon juice 1 cl Sugar syrup Daiquiri (pre) 8cl Soda water 4.5cl White rum Shake all but the soda water. Strain into a 2.5cl fresh lime juice highball glass. Stir in the soda water slowly. 1.5cl Simple syrup Garnish with a slice of lemon and a red cherry Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish and straws. First mentioned in Jerry Thomas is optional here. I would recommend a small Bartenders Guide in 1862, the recipe used 1 wedge of lime. This recipe is sometimes made teaspoon of powered white sugar instead of with lemon juice and some mixologists actu- gomme syrup and insisted on Holland Gin as ally use sugar instead of simple syrup. the base of this built cocktail. Invented by Jennings Cox (American mining Note: You can also add egg white to give the engineer) in the Spanish-American Iron drink a froth at the finish this is called a Silver Company, Havana, Cuba in 1896. Fizz Cocktail or maybe add one egg yolk to make a Golden Fizz Cocktail. Derby (all day) John Collins (lng) 6cl Gin 4.5cl Gin 2 drops Peach Bitters 3cl Lemon juice 2 fresh mint leaves 1.5cl Sugar syrup 6cl Soda water .