6 Cocktails Everyone Should Know
Traditionally cocktails were a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. But by the 1860s, a cocktail frequently included a liqueur. Cocktails became less popular in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, until resurging in the 1980s with vodka often substituting the original gin in drinks such as the martini.
Traditional cocktails began to make a comeback in the 2000s and by the mid-2000s there was a renaissance of cocktail culture in a style typically referred to as mixology that draws on traditional cocktails for inspiration but utilizes novel ingredients and often complex flavours.
SUMMER TIME COCKTAIL
3/4 Gin.
1/4 Sirop-de-Citron.
Shake well and strain into medium size glass; fill up with soda water.
SUNRISE
1/4 Grenadine.
1/4 Creme de Violette.
1/4 Yellow Chartreuse.
1/4 Cointreau.
Use liqueur glass and pour ingredients in carefully so that they do not mix.
PINK ROSE COCKTAIL
The White of 1 Egg.
1 Teaspoonful Grenadine.
1 Teaspoonful Lemon Juice.
1 Teaspoonful Sweet Cream.
2/3 Glass Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
MARTINI (SPECIAL) COCKTAI (6 people)
4 Glasses of Gin.
1½ Glasses Italian Vermouth.
1/3 Glass Orange-flower
Water
Before shaking, add a dash of Absinthe and one or two dashes of Angostura Bitters.
LUTKINS SPECIAL COCKTAIL
2 Dashes Orange Juice.
2 Dashes Apricot Brandy.
1/2 French Vermouth.
1/2 Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
CURACAO COCKTAIL ( 6 people)
1/2 Glass Brandy.
2½ Glasses Dark Curaçao.
2½ Glasses Orange Juice.
1/2 Glass Gin.
Broken Ice.
Shake and serve in glasses rinsed out with Orange Bitters.
The Cocktail Recipes have been compiled by Harry Craddock Of the Savoy Hotel London.
(The Savoy Cocktail Book)
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