| OTHER MIXED DRINKS) 1. Cobbler: A sweet drink made of 5fl oz of wine or 2fl oz of spirit, poured over ice with Curacao and sugar or gomme syrup added; it is decorated with slices of fruit, a sprig of mint and drinking straws. Any kind of white or red wine and any kind of spirits may be used; mixer sherry is sometimes used. 2. Collins: A well long drink made with 2fl oz of gin with lemon juice or lemon squash, sugar and few dashes of bitters. The glass is filled with soda water or lemonade and a slice of lemon added. Other spirits may be used and it is usual to call the drink by the one used, e.g., Rum Collins. There is no difference between a John Collins and a Tom Collins. 3. Bourbon Collins: Is made with 2/3 of bourbon whiskey, 1/3 lime juice, sugar and angostura bitters with lemonade or ginger ale. Irish whiskey, scotch whiskey, dutch gin, or brandy are also used to make this kind of refreshing drink. 4. Cooler: A measure of spirit or liqueur is shaken with ice, lemon or lime juice and bitters; it is then diluted with soda water or ginger ale to make a long cool drink in a tall glass, with ice cubes and sprig of mint or slice of fruit. 5. Ardsley Cooler: Is made with gin and dry ginger ale and decorated with a spirg of mint. Black stone is made with rum and soda water. Cuba libre is white rum with cola. 6. Crusta: Dip the rim of a small Paris goblet in lemon juice then in sugar and line the inside of the glass completely with a long thin spiral of orange peel. Fill the glass with ice and add a measure of 3 oz of spirit, a few dashes of maraschino and angostura bitters. Any spirit can be used and the drink should take its name from the one used. A maraschino cherry may be added. 7. Daisy: A long cool drink based on a spirit with lemon juice, grenadine and soda water. It can be shaken or stirred and decorated with fruit. Star daisy is calvados flavored with grenadine and lime juice. Highland Daisy is made with whiskey, raspberry syrup and lime, lemon and orange juices. 8. Egg Nog: This can be made with a spirit or it can be non-alcoholic. It is made by beating one egg with 10 oz cold milk, sweetening with sugar and flavoring with one or more of the following: brandy, Curacao, marsala, sherry, rum or whiskey. Finish with grated nutmeg on top 9. Tom And Jarry: Is egg yog flavored with brandy and rum 10. Fixe: A short cold drink based on 1 oz spirit with 1/z oz cherry brandy, lemon juice and sugar; a slice of lemon is added. This is some times called a twist. A gin fixe is gin sweetened with gomme syrup and flavored with lemon juice 11. Fizz: Shake 1: 1/z oz of any kind of spirit with lemon juice and sugar, pour into a tall glass and fill with soda water, drink through a straw. 12. Buck’s Fizz: Is made with 1 oz orange juice and 5 oz champagne; it is also known as a mimosa. 13. Silver Fizz: Shake 1: 1/z oz rum, 1/z oz lemon, 1/z oz lemon syrup, 1 white of egg and few drops of angostura bitters 14. A Daisy Fizz: Is made with brandy and orange, lemon and lime juice, filled with soda water 15. Flip: Shake 2 oz brandy and any fortified wine such as sherry with an egg yolk and sugar, pour into a small goblet and sprinkle with nutmeg. A cream flip is made by shaking whipping cream with egg yolk, sugar and Curacao. 16. Frappe: This is generally accepted as being a 6-out measure of any liqueur poured over finely crushed ice and served as an after-dinner digestive. If requested, brandy and one other spirit can be mixed together to make a frappe. A frappe is usually served in a liqueur glass with two short straws 17. Grog: A warming drink made by diluting rum with sugar and boiling water. It is often given someone who is feeling vaguely unwell or who is suffering from cold. 18. High Ball: A long cold drink made with 2 oz of a liqueur, spirit or wine poured onto ice and filled up with dry ginger ale 19. Bermuda High Ball: Is made with equal parts of brandy, gin and dry vermouth with soda water; a fireman’s high ball is an equal amount of dry vermouth and blackcurrant liqueur, with soda water. 20. Julep: Crush a few mint leaves with sugar and a little water in a glass, add bourbon whiskey and crushed ice stir and serve with drinking straws and mint leaves. 21. Pimm’s: A proprietary drink based on gin or vodka which must be diluted with lemonade or ginger ale and well decorated with slice of apple, lemon, orange, cucumber peel, borage or mint. The rate of dilution is according to the customer’s choice of long, medium or short; the long version is often referred to as a pimm’s sling. Pimm’s Royal ia made with champagne instead of mineral water and Royal Regatta is made with dry ginger ale. 22. Pousse Café: This is a rainbow-effect cocktail maid by pouring several liqueurs and spirits in layers in a tall thin glass over the back of a spoon so as to keep the different colours in their place. It can be done in the following order-grenadine, kahlua, blue curacao, white crème de menthe, brandy and green chartreuse. There are many version of this kind of drink but the name pousse café if also used to describe an after-dinner digestif such as strega 23. Punch: A long drink served either cold or hot from a punchbowl. It is usually only mildly alcoholic because the main ingredient is soda water or other carbonated mineral water. The name comes from the Hindu ‘panch’ which means five. A real punch being made with five ingredients. The use of fruit is optional but sugar is usually added. 24. Apple Nectar: 1 bot apple juice, 2 oz brandy or 4 oz sherry, 1 sliced lemon, pinch of mixed spice 25. Bengal Tiger: 2 oz brandy, 1 pt strong cold test, 2 oz lemon juice, 4 oz sugar, few dashes of bitters, mints 26. Sangria: 1 bot red or roes wine, 1/z pt orange juice, 2 oz brandy, 1/z pt soda water, 2 oz sugar, 1 lemon juice, sliced oranges, peaches, etc 27. White Wine Punch: 1 bot white wine, 1 pot orange juice, 1 pot lemonade, 2 oz cointreau. |
Thursday, November 27, 2008
OTHER MIXED DRINKS
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