Category: Food and Drink

A classic cobbler is just gin, sugar and some fruit as a garnish. Savoy and Café Royal have a Grape Fruit cocktail, but it is not listed as a cobbler, which has its own section at the back of the book. Lommebogen’s recipe is the same as Café Royal, so I’m just going to ignore… Continue reading Grape Fruit (Cobbler)

The Golden Fizz is essentially a Gin Fizz with an egg yolk in it. Just to be complete on the standard fizzes with egg, a Silver Fizz uses egg white instead of yolk, and a Royal Fizz uses a whole egg. The Savoy has 27 fizz recipes, all with little variations on the standard. Some… Continue reading Golden Fizz Cocktail

Now that we’ve navigated the fuzzy world of Gin Fix and Gin Fizz, the Gin Sling gives us something with more than subtle distinctions. That said the name history for the sling is its own murky space, pulling in the Toddy and a general discussion on what defines a cocktail. I’m going to let you… Continue reading Gin Sling Cocktail

Onwards with gin drinks that have slightly confusing definitions. The Gin Fizz is a pretty straightforward cocktail, and you can see that it’s similar to the previous Gin Fix, but the most common confusion for this one is with the Tom Collins. They are both like gin lemonades with soda water. At the end of… Continue reading Gin Fizz Cocktail

After the Gin Cocktail, we continue the run of classic gin cocktails with the Gin Fix. You’ll see that this and the Gin Fizz which follows are quite similar, but there are some subtle distinctions. The main difference I can discern between a fix and a fizz is that the fix uses regular water instead… Continue reading Gin Fix Cocktail

This is a simple cocktail in the classic definition of a cocktail. Back in the day the word “cocktail” was specifically for drinks that consisted of just liquor, a little sweetener, and some bitters. That’s it. You can think of the classic old fashioned for the basic definition of a cocktail. Very simple, and they… Continue reading Gin Cocktail

The Eye Opener, as the name states, is meant to get you back on your feet in the morning. Like many drinks with eggs in them, this is meant as a hangover drink. The yolk is meant to help coat your tummy, and of course the liquor is for your classic hair of the dog.… Continue reading Eye Opener Cocktail

One thing to be clear about is that the East India cocktail is very different from the East Indian (note the final “n”). Both of them appear in the Savoy book, but only the East India is in Lommebogen. (For the curious, the East Indian is half each French vermouth and sherry, with orange bitters.)… Continue reading East India Cocktail

Dubonnet is an herbal fortified wine, similar to vermouth. Vermouths traditionally have wormwood to provide the main herbal and bitter component (although not as much now), whereas Dubonnet is a brand name of a quinquina, where the major flavor is cinchona bark. Cinchona provides quinine, which gives tonic water its bitterness as well. (There is… Continue reading Dubonnet Cocktail

This recipe doesn’t exactly match up between the three books. Lommebogen has Doctor Special, while Cafe Royal and Savoy have Doctor, without the “Special.” They are obviously closely related though because they both use an ingredient called Swedish Punch (also called Caloric Punch), so I went ahead and added it to my list. Looks like… Continue reading Doctor Special Cocktail