Happy Drinking

[Nick Charles]

I'ld like to offer a warm and happy new year to everyone early and offer this for casual reading.

I found it at the library today. I'm going to a party saturday(byob) and I'm making myself French Martini's. Great golden era coverage and interesting drinks of the past. Bottoms Up!

 

[scotrace]

You'll look snappy in one of those vests

And share recipes, if you can please?

 

[Nick Charles]

what would you like to drink?

 

[scotrace]

Nothing with an umbrella

Bourbon, gin or vodka concoctions for me thanks. :cheers1:

 

[Nick Charles]

here is a link to one called a Pegu http://www.vintagecocktails.com/featured.html

a favorite at the British Pegu Club in colonial Burma of the 1920's,

Hers is one I'm interested in trying Created by bartender Tom Buttery at the Berkshire Hotel, London in 1930, this was the winner of an international cocktail competition that year.

Golden Dawn
3/4 ounce gin.
3/4 ounce Cointreau
3/4 ounce applejack or Calvados.
3/4 ounce Apry or good apricot brandy
(avoid that "apricot-flavored brandy" stuff).
3/4 ounce fresh squeezed orange juice.
2 dashes Angostura bitters.
1 dash grenadine.

Combine all ingredients except the grenadine in a shaker with cracked ice.
Shake vigorously for 15-20 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass, then
add the dash of grenadine, which will sink to the bottom and give the
drink its "golden dawn" appearance. Garnish with a stemless cherry.

 

[Nick Charles]

and a bourbon

The Derby Cocktail
racing not brown

1 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 oz orange Curacao
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
add mint leaf


Shake in an iced coctaiil shaker and strain into a coctail glass

From the Trader Vics 1947 Bar guide.

 

[Quigley Brown]

How'd you like to try this one on New Years Eve? It's from a bartender's guide published in 1935.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

I have a copy of this one: 173 Pre-Prohibition Cocktails: Potions So Good They Scandalized a President

From Publishers Weekly
Tom Bullock, esteemed bartender at the St. Louis Country Club, was able to work magic with beverages both alcoholic and not. He became the first African-American to publish a book on drinks, called The Ideal Bartender (1917), which featured an introduction by George Herbert Walker, a devotee of Bullock's and great-grandfather of our current president. In 173 Pre-Prohibition Cocktails: Potations So Good They Scandalized a President (Teddy Roosevelt's penchant for Bullock's juleps tainted his presidential bid), D.J. Frienz, who edited Good Things to Eat As Suggested by Rufus, brings together Bullock's original recipes with turn-of-the-century memorabilia and 20 pages of historical drink facts.

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0965433323/701-1287991-7854730

 

[feltfan]

I have an Esquire men's cookbook and drink mixing guide from
the 1950s. My favorite entry at the moment contains suggestions
for a successful backyard BBQ.

They recommend a DDT bomb early in the day and then
another just before the guests arrive.

It would be interesting to look up a few drinks in various
guides and see how they evolved over the years.

 

[Siirous]

2 DDT Bombs? Just for the guests?

As they say, hindsight is 20/20.

Sincerely,
Rob

 

[John in Covina]

I'll take a Manhattan please! I love the Gentleman Jack Manhattans at the Napa resturant in the Rio in Vegas, wowsa!