#Classic Cocktails

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Claridge Cocktail

This Claridge Cocktail, devised by the wonderful Harry Craddock and appearing in his Savoy Cocktail Book, is a delicious concoction --one wouldn't expect less from Harry!-- with a delightful balance between sweet, dry and potent! Cheers, lovelies!

Ingredients (serves 1):

8 ice cubes

45 millilitres/1 1/2 fluid ounces (3 tablespoons) London Dry Gin

45 millilitres/1 1/2 fluid ounces (3 tablespoons) French Dry Vermouth

22.5 millilitres/3/4 fluid ounces (1 1/2 tablespoon) Apricot Liqueur 

22.5 millilitres/3/4 fluid ounces (1 1/2 tablespoon) Cointreau

Place ice cubes in a shaker.

Pour Gin, Vermouth, Apricot Liqueur and Cointreau over the ice.

Close the shaker tightly, and shake energetically until well-chilled.

Strain cocktail into a chilled coupe or Martini glass.

Enjoy Claridge Cocktail immediately! 

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Research for the latest chapter of Happiness: decided that Present Mic's favorite drink is the Million Dollar cocktail. Don't forget the egg white or the pineapple wedge. So fluffy!

P. S. Every time a chapter features a new minor character that person becomes my latest precious baby

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Melissa's Sidecar

The Ritz Hotel in Paris, France, claims the Sidecar as their cocktail, saying it was created around the end of World War I.

Once in a great while, I try to surprise my husband by making a new cocktail since he is the resident bartender. I found this one when looking for classic cocktails. It’s citrusy and sweet with the brandy but has plenty of kick.

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Hot Buttered Rum | Toddies and related drinks, Built in Glass, hot

“After a man’s had two—three drinks of hot buttered rum, he don’t shoot a catamount".

the 17th was apparently Hot Buttered rum day and since I’m a little under the weather it feels like the perfect drink. Here I present a historical recipe as closely as can be interpreted  -- from Professor Jerry Thomas’s own bartending manual, as well as a modern, less  oily and slick version that uses that fantastic fatwashed rum I hope you tried out from the Financier Cobbler.  Feel free to add more sugar to suit your taste. It’s an art, not a science. Also, you can use about a little extra sugar if you like sweets.  

For your vessel, using an Irish Coffee mug, or anything heatproof. Ideally, pre-warm the cup by filling it with near-boiling water as you prep your ingredients. 

Jerry Thomas’ Hot Spiced Rum

2 teaspoons of Demerara  or Brown Sugar or to taste

1 tablespoon of high-quality butter, softened(I used Kerrygold)

quarter teaspoon ground allspice 

quarter teaspoon ground clove

2 fl oz or 60 ml. Rum. I like this most with a rum in the 5-10 year age range, particularly a relatively mild Jamaican rum like Appleton Estate Signature and Appleton Estate 8, or a leaving Jamaica,a Demerara like El Dorado 5 or 8-year. Mount Gay and Doorly’s/Seale 10 or Mount Gay Eclipse from Barbados also excellent. 

Mix sugar, butter and spices together in base of warmed glass. Add a little hot water and stir to slightly emulsify the butter, then add rum and stir a little more. Then top with more hot water. Garnish with cinnamon, nutmegs, star anise, anything you want. 

Hot Butter-washed Rum 

2 Bar spoons(or heaped teaspoons) Demerara or Brown Sugar 

2 fl oz or 60 ml Brown Butter Rum

Hot Water [near boiling]

Garnish with Clove, Star Anise + Cinnamon Stick 

Place first two ingredients in vessel. Then add the near-boiling water and stir. before garnishing. 

 Which do you prefer? 

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Elijah Craig Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey Cocktail

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Classic Old Fashioned? Don't mind if I do!

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Another Midjourney test I was doing over the weekend was could it create some David Shrigley-esque paintings?

I started with asking about general things, but when I asked it to include typography and include emotions - like saddy avocado, angry vegetables and classic cocktails did it get to a weird Shrigley world. The veggies with attitude feel a lot like the Mr. Men books by Roger Hargreaves.

The nonsense letters for the cocktail paintings are very fun - I imagine it for the last set of 4 posters like:

TGIF RIGHT?

DRINK WHISKEY. LOTS OF WHISKEY

MARTINI IS YOUR ONLY FRIEND

HE HAS A LOT OF OPINIONS POST-WHISKEY

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Actress Estelle Taylor, c. early 1930s

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Mel's Classic Margarita

Is it the salt, the freshly squeezed juice, or the tequila that makes me love you?

Is it the salt, the freshly squeezed juice, or the tequila that makes me love you? There is a lot of folklore about who created the classic margarita. Some say a Mexican restaurant owner threw some lime juice into tequila for a persnickety showgirl around 1938. Others say a Texas socialite named Margaret impressed guests with the new cocktail at a house party in 1948. There are more stories as…

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Bela Lugosi with wife Lillian in 1952.

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Darren Criss | 2023 | PHOTOSHOOTS

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