Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
20 best Halloween cocktails. All Hallows' Eve, the 31st of October, is spook night with bizarre costumes, trick-or-treat, pumpkin carving, apple bobbing and bonfires all the rage.
French 75 Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
Variant: Soixante-Quinze (1915 Washington Herald recipe) - with dry gin, applejack bonded, grenadine and lemon juice. "75" Cocktail (Vermeire's 1922 recipe) - with dry gin, calvados, lemon juice and grenadine. "75" Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe) - with calvados, dry gin, grenadine and absinthe. French 75 (Judge Jr's 1927 recipe) - with lemon juice, powdered sugar, dry gin …
Perfect Martini Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: The Perfect Martini sits between a Dry Martini (with gin and dry vermouth) and a Sweet Martini (with gin and rosso vermouth) so is logically called a Medium Martini in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.. MARTINI (MEDIUM) COCKTAIL. ¼ French Vermouth. ¼ Italian Vermouth. ½ Dry Gin. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
History: This infamous drink reached the height of its popularity in the early 1980s and by 1985 The New York Times reported, "A potent alcoholic drink called Long Island Iced Tea is sweeping the Island's bars as well as watering spots across the country. Of the many stories surrounding its origin, perhaps the most credible attributes its creation to …
Manhattan (Perfect) Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
to make a manhattan (perfect) use whisk(e)y - bourbon whiskey, vermouth - rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di torino), vermouth - dry, angostura or other aromatic bitters
20 best Blue Curaçao cocktails - Difford's Guide
Blue curaçao equals BLUE DRINKS, or at least various shades of aquamarine. There are numerous other orange-flavoured liqueurs but blue curaçao stands out as the only vivid blue ingredient to be found in bars across the world. And like many things from the 1970s, blue drinks are retro and so back in vogue. Here's our best blue curaçao cocktails.
Casks - barrel, butt, punchon, pipe, barrique,hogshead - Difford's …
Barrels are a particular size and shape of wooden cask. There are numerous other types of cask and the term ‘barrel’ is often wrongly used as a catch-all alternative generic for cask. Usually made of white oak, casks have been used since Roman times as a means of storing and transporting goods - everything from nails to whiskey.
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Cosmopolitan Cocktail (Difford's Recipe)
to make a cosmopolitan cocktail (difford's recipe) use vodka, cointreau/triple sec, vodka - citrus flavoured, cranberry juice (sweetened), lime juice (freshly squeezed),
Boulevardier Cocktail - Difford's Guide
History: The Boulevardier first appears in Harry McElhone's Barflies and Cocktails, not among the book's A-Z listing of recipes but in a piece called "Cocktails Round Town" contributed by Arthur Moss, the "Around the Town" columnist of the New York Herald, Paris.. Now is the time for all good Barflies to come to the aid of the party, since Erskinne Gwynne crashed in …