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Classic Cocktails & Recipes Flashcards

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Aviation

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2 oz gin
.5 oz maraschino liqueur
.5 oz lemon juice
.25 oz creme de violette (dash)

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Boulevardier

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(rye Negroni)

1.25 oz rye
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth

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Brandy Crusta

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1.5 oz brandy
.25 oz maraschino liqueur
.25 oz Cointreau
.25 oz lemon juice

  • shake & strain into sugar-rimmed cocktail glass
  • garnish with twist
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Corpse Reviver

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French 75

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(Tom Collins with champagne instead of soda)

1.5 oz London dry gin
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup

  • shake & strain
  • top with champagne
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Pisco Sour

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2 oz Pisco
1 oz lime juice
1 oz simple syrup
1 egg white
-shake & strain
- put several dashes of bitters on foam
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Caipirinha

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1) muddle a quartered half lime with .75 oz simple syrup or 1.5 barspoons sugar in a rocks glass
2) add ice and 2 oz cachaca

*can be built in glass or shaken & poured into rocks glass

**Caipirissima is rum, Caipiroska is vodka

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Rickey

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Whiskey Sour

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1.5-2 oz bourbon or rye
.75 oz simple syrup
.75 oz lemon juice

-shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an old-fashioned glass or a special sour
glass
-garnish with a flag

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Daisy

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orange liqueur
lemon juice
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  • shake & strain into cocktail glass
  • top with soda
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Collins

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1.5 oz gin, bourbon, or vodka
.75 oz simple syrup
.75 oz lemon juice

  • shake & strain into iced collins glass
  • top with soda
  • garnish with flag

*Tom is gin, John is bourbon

**original was John Collins & was made with genever gin

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Smash

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Fizz

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1.5 oz gin
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup

  • shake& strain into highball glass
  • top with soda
  • a proper fizz is never served with ice
  • *difference b/n collins & fizz is glass size & ice
  • **if made with egg white, it’s a Silver Fizz
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Sling

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Toddy

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Daiquiri (Hemingway)

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1.5 oz white rum
.75 oz simple syrup
.75 oz lime juice

-shake & strain

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Mai Tai (Trader Vic’s)

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2 oz aged rum (preferably Jamaican)
.75 oz lime juice
.75 oz orange curacao
1 teaspoon orgeat

  • shake well & strain into iced double old fashioned glass
  • garnish with lime wheel, mint, & a sonya orchid
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Margarita

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2 oz silver tequila
1 oz Cointreau
3/4 oz lime juice
.25 oz agave

  • shake & strain into salt-rimmed, iced bucket
  • garnish with lime wedge
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Cosmopolitan (Dale de Groff/Rainbow Room recipe)

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1.5 oz citron vodka
.75 oz Cointreau
.25 oz lime juice (squeeze)
1 oz cranberry juice

  • shake & strain
  • garnish with orange peel
20
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Sidecar

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1.5 oz VS or VSOP cognac
.75 oz Cointreau
.5-.75 oz lemon juice

  • shake & strain
  • garnish with orange peel
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Mojito

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1) muddle 4 mint leaves, .75 oz simple syrup, & .75 oz lime juice in a highball glass
2) add 1.5 oz white rum, fill glass with ice, & top with <2 oz soda
3) garnish with mint

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Paloma

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Ward 8

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Blood & Sand

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1 oz scotch
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz cherry heering
1 oz orange juice

  • shake & strain
  • garnish with orange twist & brandied cherry
25
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Bellini

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1.5 oz peach puree
4 oz champagne
.5 oz peach liqueur float (optional)

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Bloody Mary (original)

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1.5 oz vodka
2 dashes Worchestershire sauce
4 dashes Tabasco sauce
pinch salt & pepper
dash celery salt
fresh horseradish
.25 oz lemon juice
4 oz tomato juice
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Daiquiri (original)

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1) stir .5 teaspoon superfine sugar with juice of half a lime
2) add 2 oz rum
3) shake & strain?

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Gimlet

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2.5 oz gin
.5 oz Rose’s or Angostura lime juice

  • shake & strain into cocktail glass or into iced old fashioned glass
  • garnish with lime wedge
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Irish Coffee

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1.5 oz Jameson’s
1 oz simple or brown sugar syrup
4 oz coffee

-top with whipped cream

30
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Manhattan

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2 oz rye or bourbon
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura bitters

  • stir & strain
  • garnish with cherry (some prefer twist)

*dry Manhattan made with dry vermouth & garnished with twist

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Dry Martini (original 1895 recipe)

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1.5 oz London dry gin
1.5 oz French dry vermouth
1-2 dashes orange bitters

  • stir & strain
  • garnish with orange or lemon twist
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Classic Extra Dry Martini (from 1950’s on)

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3 oz London dry gin or vodka
1/8 oz dry French vermouth

  • season ice with vermouth, then strain off
  • add liquor, stir, & strain
  • garnish with pitted Spanish olive (not pimento)
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Mint Julep

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1) gently bruise 1 mint sprig with 1 oz simple syrup or 2 teaspoons superfine sugar in a highball glass
2) add 1.5 oz bourbon and fill with crushed ice
3) swirl with spoon until glass is frosted
4) top off with crushed ice & add 1 oz bourbon
5) garnish with mint

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Negroni

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1 oz London dry gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth

  • combine in iced old fashioned glass & stir
  • garnish with orange peel or slice
  • can also be served straight up
    • Count Negroni topped his with soda
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Old-Fashioned (original)

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1) muddle 1 sugar cube or 1 tsp sugar, 3 dashes Angostura bitters, & splash soda (<1 tsp) until syrup forms
2) add 2 oz bourbon or rye & ice, & stir
3) garnish with a lemon twist

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Old-Fashioned (muddled, circa 1915)

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1) in an old fashioned glass muddle 1 orange slice, 1 cherry, 1 tsp sugar, 3 dashes Angostura bitters, & a splash soda
2) remove the orange rind
3) add 2 oz bourbon, ice, & splash soda or water
4) garnish with fresh orange slice & a cherry

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Sazerac

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1) prepare glass for absinthe rinse
2) muddle 3-4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters with sugar cube or .5 oz simple syrup in mixing glass
3) add 2 oz rye, ice, & stir
4) strain into glass after rinsing with absinthe
5) garnish with lemon twist

*originally made with Sazerac de Forge et Fils, the favorite cognac of the day

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Stinger

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2.25 oz VS or VSOP cognac
.75 oz white creme de menthe

-shake & strain over crushed ice in old fashioned glass or serve straight up

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