The unforgettables

Question 1

Alexander

Answer 1

Cocktail glass (preferably a cup with a stem like a martini glass)

30 ml Cognac
30 ml Crème de Cacao (Brown)
30 ml Fresh Cream

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Sprinkle fresh ground nutmeg on top.

Question 2

Boulevardier

Answer 2

Martini glass

45 ml Bourbon or Rye Whiskey
30 ml Bitter Campari
30 ml Sweet Red Vermouth

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with orange zest, optionally a lemon zest.

Question 3

Casino

Answer 3

Rocks glass

40 ml Old Tom Gin
10 ml Maraschino Luxardo
10 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
2 Dashes Orange Bitters

Pour all ingredients into cocktails shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled rocks glass with ice.

Garnish with lemon zest and a maraschino cherry.

Question 4

Martinez

Answer 4

Martini glass

45 ml London Dry Gin
45 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
1 Bar Spoon Maraschino Liqueur
2 Dashes Orange Bitters

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon zest

Question 5

Monkey gland

Answer 5

Cocktail or champagne glass

45 ml Dry Gin
45 ml Fresh Orange Juice
1 Table Spoon Absinthe
1 Table Spoon Grenadine Syrup

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 6

Ramos Frizz

Answer 6

Long drink glass

45 ml Gin
15 ml Fresh Lime Juice
15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
30 ml Sugar Syrup
60 ml Cream
30ml Egg white
3 Dashes Orange Flower Water
2 Drops Vanilla Extract
Soda Water

Pour all ingredients except soda water in a cocktail shaker with ice, Shake for two minutes, double strain in a glass, pour the drink back in the shaker, and hard shake without ice for one minute. Strain into a highball glass, top up with soda.

Question 7

Stinger

Answer 7

Martini glass

50 ml Cognac
20 ml White Crème de Menthe

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled martini cocktail glass.

Optionally garnish with mint leave.

Question 8

Whiskey sour

Answer 8

Cobbler or on the rocks in a lowball

45 ml Bourbon Whiskey
25 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
20 ml Sugar Syrup
20 ml Egg White (Optional)

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into cobbler glass. If served “On the rocks”, strain ingredients into an old fashioned glass filled with ice.

NOTE:
If egg white is used shake little harder to release and incorporate the foam from the egg white.

Garnish with a half orange slice and maraschino cherry, optionally use orange zest.

Question 9

Americano

Answer 9

Old fashioned glass

30 ml Bitter Campari
30 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
A splash of Soda Water

Mix the ingredients directly in an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Add a splash of Soda Water. Stir gently.

Garnish with half orange slice and a lemon zest.

Question 10

Daiquiri

Answer 10

Cocktail glass

60 ml White Cuban Ron
20 ml Fresh Lime Juice
2 Bar Spoons Superfine Sugar

In a cocktail shaker add all ingredients. Stir well to dissolve the sugar. Add ice and shake. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Question 11

Mary pickford

Answer 11

Cocktail glass

45 ml White Rum
45 ml Fresh Pineapple Juice
7.5 ml Maraschino Luxardo
5 ml Grenadine Syrup

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 12

Angel face

Answer 12

Cocktail glass

30 ml Gin
30 ml Apricot Brandy
30 ml Calvados

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 13

Between the Sheets

Answer 13

Cocktail glass

30 ml White Rum
30 ml Cognac
30 ml Triple Sec
20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 14

Brandy Crusta

Answer 14

Slim cocktail glass

52,5 ml Brandy
7,5 ml Maraschino Luxardo
1 Bar Spoon Curacao
15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
1 Bar Spoon Simple Syrup
2 Dashes Aromatic Bitters

Mix together all ingredients with ice cubes in a mixing glass and strain into prepared slim cocktail glass.

Rub a slice of orange (or lemon) around the rim of the glass and dip it in pulverized white sugar, so that the sugar will adhere to the edge of the glass. Carefully curling place the orange/lemon peel around the inside of the glass.

Question 15

Dry Martini

Answer 15

Martini glass

60 ml Gin
10 ml Dry Vermouth

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled martini cocktail glass.

Squeeze oil from lemon peel onto the drink, or garnish with green olives if requested.

Question 16

Gin Fizz

Answer 16

Tumbler glass

45 ml Gin
30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
10 ml Simple Syrup
Splash of Soda Water

Shake all ingredients with ice except soda water. Pour into thin tall Tumbler glass , top with a splash soda water.

Serve without ice.

Garnish with a lemon slice, optional lemon zest.

Question 17

Hanky Panky

Answer 17

Cocktail glass

45 ml London Dry Gin
45 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
7.5 ml Fernet Branca

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Orange zest.

Question 18

John Collins

Answer 18

Highball glass

45 ml Gin
30 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
15 ml Simple Syrup
60 ml Soda Water

Pour all ingredients directly into a highball filled with ice. Stir gently.
NOTE:
Use ‘Old Tom’ Gin for Tom Collins.

Garnish with a lemon slice and maraschino cherry.

Question 19

Last Words

Answer 19

Cocktail glass

22.5 ml Gin
22.5 ml Green Chartreuse
22.5 ml Maraschino Luxardo
22.5 ml Fresh Lime Juice

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 20

Manhattan

Answer 20

Cocktail glass

50 ml Rye Whiskey
20 ml Sweet Red Vermouth
1 dash Angostura Bitters

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with a cocktail cherry.

Question 21

Negroni

Answer 21

Old fashioned glass

30 ml Gin
30 ml Bitter Campari
30 ml Sweet Red Vermouth

Pour all ingredients directly into a chilled old fashioned glass filled with ice, Stir gently.

Garnish with a half orange slice.

Question 22

Old Fashioned

Answer 22

Old fashioned glass

45 ml Bourbon or Rye Whiskey
1 Sugar Cube
Few Dashes Angostura Bitters
Few Dashes Plain Water

Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitter, add few dashes of plain water. Muddle until dissolved. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey. Stir gently.

Garnish with an orange slice or zest, and a cocktail cherry.

Question 23

Paradise

Answer 23

Cocktail glass

30 ml Gin
20 ml Apricot Brandy
15 ml Fresh Orange Juice

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Question 24

Planter’s Punch

Answer 24

Small tumbler or terracotta glass

45 ml Jamaican Rum
15 ml Lime Juice
30 ml Sugar Cane Juice

Pour all ingredients directly in a small tumbler or a typical terracotta glass.
NOTE:
Add dilution up to taste, it can be given by water, ice or fresh juices.

Orange zest

Question 25

Porto Flip

Answer 25

Cocktail glass

15 ml Brandy
45 ml Red Tawny Port Wine
10 ml Egg Yolk

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Sprinkle with fresh ground nutmeg.

Question 26

Rusty nail

Answer 26

Old fashioned glass

45 ml Scotch Whisky
25ml Drambuie

Pour all ingredients directly into an old fashioned glass filled with ice. Stir gently.

Garnish with lemon zest.

Question 27

Sazerac

Answer 27

Old fashioned glass

50 ml Cognac
10 ml Absinthe
1 Sugar Cube
2 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters

Rinse a chilled old-fashioned glass with the absinthe, add crushed ice and set it aside. Stir the remaining ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. Discard the ice and any excess absinthe from the prepared glass, strain the mixed drink into the glass.

The original recipe changed after the American Civil War, Rye Whiskey substituted Cognac as it became hard to obtain.

Garnish with lemon zest.

Question 28

Sidecar

Answer 28

Cocktail glass

50 ml Cognac
20 ml Triple Sec
20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 29

Tuxedo

Answer 29

Martini glass

30 ml Old Tom Gin
30 ml Dry Vermouth
1/2 Bar Spoon Maraschino Luxardo
1/4 Bar Spoon of Absinthe
3 Dashes Orange Bitters

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into chilled martini cocktail glass.

Garnish with cherry and lemon zest

Question 30

Vieux Carrè

Answer 30

Cocktail glass

30 ml Rye Whiskey
30 ml Cognac
30 ml Sweet Vermouth
1 Bar Spoon Bénédictine
2 Dashes Peychaud’s Bitters

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with orange zest and maraschino cherry.

Question 31

White lady

Answer 31

Cocktail glass

40 ml Gin
30 ml Triple Sec
20 ml Fresh Lemon Juice

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Question 32

Aviation

Answer 32

Cocktail glass

45 ml Gin
15 ml Maraschino Luxardo
15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
1 Bar Spoon Crème de Violette

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake with cracked ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Optional Maraschino Cherry.

Question 33

Clover Club

Answer 33

Cocktail glass

45 ml Gin
15 ml Raspberry Syrup
15 ml Fresh Lemon Juice
Few Drops of Egg White

Pour all ingredients into cocktails shaker, shake well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Fresh raspberries.