Du Barry

DuBarry

One of history’s most famous mistresses inspired this bold cocktail. Don’t let it’s daintiness fool you…


Ingredients: 

  • 1 oz Gin
  • 1/2 oz French vermouth
  • 1 tsp Pernod
  • Dash Angostura bitters

Instructions: 

Stir all ingredients in a ice filled glass. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.


Source: Let’s Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition 

Fairy Belle

Fairy Belle

Quality ingredients are vital for ensuring this cocktail turns out as tasty as it looks! Here we double the original recipe.


Ingredients: 

  • 1 1/2 oz Gin
  • 1/2 oz Apricot Brandy*
  • 1 egg white
  • 2 tsp quality grenadine*

Instructions: 

Shake all ingredients without ice first to ensure the egg white foams properly. Then add ice and shake again. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.


*Try to use quality apricot brandy and grenadine (as opposed to Rose’s). It will make an enormous difference!


Source: The Savoy Cocktail Book 

Delmonico

Delmonico
Delmonico

The Delmonico is named after what is considered to be the first haute-cuisine restaurant to open in the United States in 1827.


Ingredients: 

  • 1 oz Gin
  • 1/2 oz Cognac
  • 1/2 oz Sweet vermouth
  • 1/2 oz Dry vermouth
  • Dash of gin barrel aged orange bitters
  • Orange peel for garnish

Instructions: 

Stir all ingredients in a ice filled mixing glass. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with an orange peel.


 

The Loudspeaker

loud-speaker
The Loudspeaker

A few of these and you won’t need a mic to start projecting…


Ingredients: 

  • 1/2 oz Dry Gin
  • 1/2 oz Brandy or Cognac
  • 1/2 oz Cointreau
  • 1/4 oz Lemon juice

Instructions: 

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with orange peel.


Source: Let’s Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition by Lesley M.M. Blume 

Damn the Weather

Damn the Weather
Damn the Weather

 


Ingredients: 

  • 1 oz Gin
  • 1/2 oz Fresh orange juice
  • 1/4 oz Italian vermouth
  • Several dashes curaçao*

Instructions: 

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

If you want to achieve this vibrant green color, use blue curaçao! 


Source: Let’s Bring Back:  The Cocktail Edition by Lesley M.M. Blume 

Death in the Afternoon

Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway contributed this drink to a 1935 collection of celebrity recipes, instructing “pour one jigger of absinthe into a champagne glass. Add iced champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.”


Ingredients: 

  • 1 oz absinthe
  • Champagne

Instructions: 

Listen to Papa Hemingway and pace yourself.


Source: Ernest Hemingway