Spirit Forward With Juice Flashcards
Blood and Sand Cocktail
Ingredients:
3/4 ounce Scotch whisky
3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
3/4 ounce Cherry Heering
3/4 ounce orange juice
Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail glass, garnished with orange twist (flamed)
History: The Blood and Sand first appears in print in The Savoy Cocktail Book (1930) and is said to be named for the 1922 Rudolph Valentino silent film Blood and Sand, which is about Spanish bullfighting. The original recipe makes no recommendation for the type or brand of Scotch whisky.
Preparation & Variations: Some of the recipes published after the original call for blood orange juice. There are also recipes altered to include a half ounce each of Cherry Heering and sweet vermouth and one ounce each of Scotch and orange juice, rather than equal parts of all four. In modern cocktail bars, the drink is sometimes made using specific single malts instead of blended Scotch, or simply by floating a peaty single malt on top.
Bronx Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 ounce gin
1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
1/2 ounce orange juice
Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail glass, garnished with orange slice (optional)
History: The Bronx Cocktail’s first documentation is in William Boothby’s 1908 The World’s Drinks and How to Mix Them, where he cites Billy Malloy of Pittsburgh as creator. Magnus Bredenbek’s 1934 What Shall We Drink? gives credit to a Bronx restauranteur, Joseph Sormani, for naming the drink after finding it in Quaker City, PA, and suggests the drink would have stayed there if not for Sormani. In his New York Times obituary in 1947, Sormani was credited with creating the Bronx.
Waldorf Astoria historian Albert Stevens Crockett, however, asserts that the cocktail was created by Johnnie Solon, a pre-Prohibition bartender at the Waldorf Astoria. He says it was a variation on a popular cocktail served at the hotel called a Duplex, made from equal parts French and Italian vermouth, shaken with a squeeze of orange.
Harman Burke’s 1934 Burke’s Complete Cocktail and Drinking Recipes ranks the Bronx Cocktail as the third most popular drink in the world behind the Martini and the Manhattan.
Preparations & Variations: Three versions are mentioned in both Hugo Ensslin’s Recipes for Mixed Drinks and Harry Craddock’s The Savoy Cocktail Book. The original is listed above. For the Dry Bronx, muddle three slices of orange and one slice of pineapple in the shaker. Add one part each gin and French vermouth and shake with ice. The Golden Bronx is the same as the Bronx with the addition of an egg white.
Harman Burke’s book states that the original recipe was a bit stronger, consisting of four parts gin and one part each of sweet and dry vermouth and orange juice. Boothby’s book, however, calls for equal parts Plymouth Gin, French vermouth, and Italian vermouth with a bar spoon of orange juice, two dashes of orange bitters, and a squeeze from an orange peel.
Golden Dawn Cocktail
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Apricot Brandy
3/4 oz. Apple Brandy
3/4 oz. Orange Juice
Dash Grenadine
Preparation: Add dash of grenadine to the bottom of the glass. Shake all other ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail Coupe, Cherry
History: A prohibition-era cocktail named for the Rogers and Hammerstein operetta that debuted in 1927. In 1930, the United Kingdom Bartender’s Guild named it The World’s Final Cocktail. This cocktail is often promoted by Marie Brizzard in favor of their Apry, a quality apricot brandy.
Preparations and Variations: There are a variety of variations on the cocktail. Some switch out the apple brandy out for whiskey, and others replace Grenadine with raspberry syrup, or créme de cassis.
Monkey Gland Cocktail?
Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Gin
1/2oz. Orange Juice
3 dashes of Grenadine
3 dashes of Absinthe
Preparation: Combine all ingredients and shake with ice.
Presentation: Cocktail Coupe, Orange Twist
History: Created in the 1920’s by Harry MacElhone at Harry’s New York bar in Paris, France. Harry is credited for the creation of the Boulevardier, the Bloody Mary, the French 75 and many other standards.
The cocktail is named after the pseudo-scientific idea hatched by Russian doctor, Serge Voronoff, that grafting tissue from a male monkey’s genitalia to humans would help people to live longer.
Preparations and Variations: The above recipe is taken from The Savoy Cocktail Book (1930). Variations include rinsing the serving glass with absinthe rather than mixing it with the other ingredients, adding more grenadine to sweeten the cocktail further, and igniting the expressed oils of the orange peel garnish(flamed orange peel).
Satan’s Whiskers Cocktail?
Ingredients:
3/4 oz. Gin
3/4 oz. Dry Vermouth
3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
3/4 oz. Orange Juice
1/2 oz Grand Marnier
1 dash of Orange Bitters
Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain.
Presentation: Cocktail Coupe
History: The first documentation of this recipe appears in The Savoy Cocktail Book(1930) with two entries, one ‘straight’ and one ‘curled.’
The general accepted origin for the cocktail is at the Embassy Club in Hollywood during prohibition. It was a speakeasy that Adolf Brandstatter opened adjacent to the restaurant Montmartre to allow for a more private venue to host celebrities and the elite.
Preparations and Variations: Straight Whiskers: Grand Marnier; Curled Whiskers: Curacao
Other recipes call for equal parts of all 5 ingredients, and for more orange bitters.
