Recipe Suggestions
First of all you can look in the right hand column of the blog at the 'Labels' section and click the link for cocktails. I have already covered some classics, and don't wish to repeat myself even though it is most enjoyable.
Spencer Tracy & Glenda Farrell in Man's Castle 1933
Secondly there will be some recipes in this particular blog that I haven't tried but have come out of vintage magazines and sound good (to me anyway).
The Manhattan
Bernard has 4 variations of this one.
1 Measure Canadian Club Whisky
1 Measure French Vermouth (white)
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 cherry
1/2 tumbler broken ice
Put the ice in the mixing glass and add the whisky, then the vermouth and bitters, stir well, strain into a cocktail glass and add the cherry.
Carl Brisson does the Cocktails for Two number in Murder at the Vanities 1934.
Daiquiri
2 Measures Lime Juice
1 measure Rum (white)
1 or 2 dashes of Grenadine
1/2 shaker full of broken ice
Put the ice in a cocktail shaker and add the rum, Grenadine and Lime juice, shake well strain into a cocktail glass, this is mild but quite tart, more modern recipes have just a dash of lime juice.
Cider Cup for Miss Matilda
1 teaspoon sugar syrup
3 slices of orange
3 slices of lemon
rind of 1 lemon
1 slice of cucumber
1 teaspoon angostura bitters
1/2 wineglass 3 star brandy
1/2 wineglass Maraschino
1/2 wineglass Cointreau
1 wineglass sherry
1 quart Gaymers cider (sparkling)
1 small bottle schweppes soda water
Mix all the above together in a bowl but add the soda water just before serving. Pour into tall glasses with a few ice cubes in them
Black Velvet Punch (for 10 people)
1/4lb white sugar
juice of 6 lemons
1 tablespoon Angostura Bitters
1 quart Guinness Stout (Original)
1 quart champagne
mix together the lemon juice, sugar and bitters, then add the stout and champagne chill and serve in punch glasses with fruit garnish.
B&B
1 measure brandy
1 measure Benedictine
Make this in a small glass. Put the Benedictine into the glass and the pour the brandy slowly on top using the back of a spoon to slow it down. the 2 liquers should remain separated in the glass. (If they don't it tastes just as good.)
Myrna Loy, William Powell & Maureen O'Sullivan in The Thin Man 1934.
Gin & It (aka Martinez)
1 measure gin
1 measure Italian Vermouth (rosso)
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1/2 tumbler broken ice
Add the bitters to the jug of ice, then add the gin and vermouth, stir well and pass through a strainer into a cocktail glass or over ice in an old fashioned glass. Serve with a cherry or an olive.
Advert 1947.
Black Russian
3 parts vodka
2 parts Tia Maria (or other coffee liquer)
Pour vodka over icecubes in an old fashioned glass, then pour in the Tia Maria.
A variation adds coca cola to top up a taller glass.
Harvey Wallbanger
3 parts vodka
1 part Galliano
6 parts fresh orange juice
Stir together the vodka and orange juice in a highball glass full of ice cubes, float the Galliano on top.
Hemingway's Special Daiquiri
2 oz white rum
1/4 oz maraschino liqueur
juice of 1/2 lime
1 oz grapefruit juice
Squeeze lime juice into a shaker, add remaining ingredients and shake briefly with a glassful
of crushed ice. Serve in a frosted cocktail glass
Non-Alcoholic Fruit Drinks
Click for big. From 1936 Ideal Home Magazine.
Austerity Recipes from 1947
