Classic Cocktails Flashcards
Aviation
2oz Beefeater Gin
1/2oz Maraschino Liqueur
1/2oz Lemon Juice
Prep: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Optional reduce the maraschino to 2tsp and add 1tsp creme de violette.
Bellini
1 1/2oz white peach puree
4oz Perrier-Jouet Champagne
Prep: Put peach pure in bottom of mixing glass, no ice. Slowly pour Champagne flute.
Blood and Sand
3/4oz Chivas Regal Scotch
3/4oz Cherry Herring
3/4oz Italian sweet vermouth
3/4oz Fresh squeezed OJ
Prep: Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
Bloody Mary
1 1/2oz Absolut Vodka
2 dashes Worcestershire
4 dashes Tabasco
Pinch of salt and pepper
1/4 oz fresh lemon juice
4oz tomato juice
Prep: Combine all ingredients in mixing glass and roll back and forth into mix. Strain into and iced goblet. Garnish with wedge of lemon and lime on a side plate. A dash of celery salt is a nice touch and New Yorkers traditionally and horseradish.
Caipirinha, Caipirissima, Caipiroska
2oz Janeiro cachaca
1 1/2 barspoon of sugar or 3/4 simple syrup
1/2 lime, quartered
Prep: Place lime quarterrs in the bottom of mixing glass, add the sugar or syrup and muddle, extracting there juice and the oil in the skin from the lime quarters. Chill a rocks glass with cracked ice. Add cachaca (or white rum, for a Caipirissima, or vodka for a Caipiroska) to the mixture in the mixing glass and toss the ice into the mixing glass and shake well. Pour the entire contents of the mixing glass into the chilled rocks glass and serve. Another method is to build the whole drink in the glass that will receive it, omitting the shaking.
Collins ( Tom, John, vodka)
1 1/2 oz Gin, Bourbon, Vodka
3/4oz lemon juice
3/4oz simple syrup
club soda
Prep: Shake spirits, sugar and lemon juice with ice and strain into an iced Collins glass and fill with soda. Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.
Cosmopolitan
1 1/2oz Absolut Citron vodka
3/4oz Cointreau
1/4oz fresh lime juice
1oz Cranberry juice
Prep: shake all ingredient with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
Daiquiri
1 1/2oz white rum
3/4oz simple syrup
3/4oz fresh lime juice
Prep: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass. Optional: juice of half a lime, half a teaspoon superfine sugar 2oz rum ( stir sugar into lime juice before rum.
Gimlet
2 1/2oz Beefeater Gin
1/2oz preserved lime juice
Prep: Shake ingredients well with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass or serve over ice in an old fashioned glass. Garnish with lime wedge.
Gin Fizz
1 1/2oz Beefeater Gin
3/4oz fresh lime juice
3/4oz simple syrup
club soda
Prep: Shake and strain into a highball glass. Fill with club soda. No garnish. Note: proper fizz is served without ice in the glass.
Hot Toddy
2oz Scotch or Irish whiskey
1 well filled bar spoon demerara sugar or 1/4oz honey
1 strip of thin cut lemon peel
2-4oz boiling water
Prep: Rinse out mug with boiling water, to warm. This is as essential a step with hot drinks as chilling the glass is with cold ones. Add the sugar or honey, the lemon peel and half an ounce or so boiling water. Stir until sugar or honey has dissolved. Add the whiskey and another 1 1/2oz to 2 1/2oz water. depending on stiffness of drink.
Irish Coffee
1 1/2oz Jameson Irish Whiskey
1oz simple or brown sugar
4oz coffee
Lightly sweetened cream
Mai Tai
2oz aged rum
3/4oz lime juice
3/4oz orange curacao
1tsp orgeat syrup
Prep: shake well with ice and strain into an Old Fashioned glass filled with ice. Garnish with a wheel of lime, a mint sprig, and if possible a Sonya orchid
Manhattan/ Rob Roy/ Emerald
2oz straight rye or bourbon whiskey
1oz italian sweet vermouth
2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters
Prep: Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass and stir as you would a Martini. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry, although many discriminating drinkers prefer theirs with a twist.
Rob- Scotch. Emerald-Irish
Margarita
2oz Avion Silver
1oz Cointreau
3/4oz fresh lime juice
Coarse salt
Lime wedge
Prep: Combine first three ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Shake well and strain in to a chilled salt-rimmed cocktail glass. Salting the rim of glass
Dry Martini
1 1/2oz Beefeater London dry gin
1 1/2oz French dry vermouth
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Prep: Stir all ingredients with ice to chill and twist orange peel or lemon peel over the top.
Classic Dry Martini
3oz Beefeater London Dry gin or Absolut vodka
1/8oz Dry french vermouth
Prep: Prepare a tall mixing glass with ice. Pour vermouth over ice and swirl to season, then strain vermouth off the ice. Pour gin or vodka over seasoned ice and stir to chill. Strain into a chilled marin glass. Garnish traditionally with a small pitted Spanish cocktail olive ( no pimento)
Mint Julep
2 1/2oz straight bourbon or rye whiskey, or cognac
1oz simple syrup or 2tsp superfine sugar
2-4 sprigs of mint
Prep: Put the simple and 1/2oz water in the bottom of a high ball glass. Add 5 or 6 mint leaves then press lightly with a muddler. Add half of the spirits and fill with crushed or finely cracked ice. Swirl with a bar spoon until the outside of the glass frosts. Add more crushed ice and the remaining liquor. Stir again to frost the glass. Garnish with at least 1 sprig of mint, and preferably 3. Add a straw.
Mojito
1 1/2oz white rum
3/4oz fresh lime juice
3/4oz simple syrup
1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves
1oz soda
Prep: In a mixing glass muddle mint leaves with simple syrup. Add juice and rum and fill with ice. Shake vigorously and strain over fresh ice into a highball glass. Top with soda and garnish with a fresh mint sprig.
Negroni
1oz Beefeater London Dry Gin
1oz Campari
1oz Italian sweet vermouth
Prep: Combine all ingredients in an iced Old Fashioned glass and stir. Garnish with an orange peel or orange slice. The Count liked his topped with a splash of soda.
Old Old Fashioned
2oz straight rye or bourbon whiskey
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 sugar cube or a well filled bar spoon of superfine sugar
1 lemon peel
splash of water or soda
Prep: Muddle the sugar and the Angostura bitters in the splash of soda until the sugar is dissolved, forming a syrup in the bottom to ht glass. Add the whiskey and the ice, and stir. Garnish with a fresh twist of lemon peel.
Old Fashioned
2oz straight bourbon or ry whiskey
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 sugar cube or a well-filled bar spoons of superfine sugar
2 orange slices
2 maraschino cherries
splash of water or soda
Prep: Muddle the sugar, Angostura, one orange, one cherry, and a splash of soda carefully in the bottom of an old fashioned glass. Remove the orange rind, add bourbon and ice and stir thoroughly. Garnish with a fresh orange slice and a cherry.
Pisco Sour
2oz Pisco
1oz fresh lime juice
1oz simple syrup
several drops of Angostura Bitters
one small egg white
Prep: Shake all ingredients very hard with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass. Garnish with several drops of Angostura bitters on top of the foam created by the egg whites.
Sazerac
2oz straight rye whiskey
2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Splash of Pernod 68 absinthe
1/2oz simple syrup or one sugar cube and a tiny splash of water
Twist of lemon peel
Prep: Take 2 small Old fashioned glasses and chill one with ice while preparing the drink in the other by combining the rye, syrup or sugar, and the bitter and stirring with ice to chill. Empty the first glass of its chilling ice, splash a little absinthe into ti , swirl it around to coat the inside, and pour it out. Strain the contents of the second glass into it and twist the lemon peel over the top.
