Category: Food and Drink

Not to be confused with the Old Cuban cocktail, this is another hard one to google for properly. The Savoy has two recipes again, and the #1 is what has come down the line to modern times, with rum as the base liquor. The Savoy Cuban #2, and the other two books all have the… Continue reading Cuban Cocktail

The accepted story behind the name of this one is that it was made in honor of the UK’s King Edward VII at the turn of the 20th century. It uses sherry, which I don’t often mix with. Sherry is a fortified wine, so while fortified, and therefor having more backbone than a regular wine,… Continue reading Coronation Cocktail

The Coffee cocktail got its name from the way it looks, and not from having coffee in it, or tasting like coffee. In my last post, for the Clover Club, I talked a bit about eggs, and here’s another one. Though this time we’re using an egg yolk. This is a lot rarer in the… Continue reading Coffee Cocktail

The Clover Club is a great cocktail. It apparently was one of the classics from before prohibition, but it didn’t survive beyond it very well. In 1934, Esquire magazine called it a drink “for pansies.” That said, it is still found in all three of my 1930s cocktail books. People may have sneered at it,… Continue reading Clover Club Cocktail

I quite like champagne. Growing up we only had champagne a few times, and my mom was very particular about what was acceptable champagne. The real stuff—not Prosecco or Crémant. And Brut. She was big on dry champagne. Anyway, I have to say that getting a bubbly cocktail sounds fun, and while I know it… Continue reading Champagne Cocktail

I paused posting here for a bit due to a two-week trip to the US for work. No cocktail-making going on for me while I travel. I’m back in the saddle again at home though, so here we go. The Café de Paris cocktail looks like a pretty weird drink to me (and to others… Continue reading Café de Paris Cocktail

The Bronx is another cocktail with an interesting history, which shows in the fact that I have two recipes for it. This is kin to the Manhattan, in that it is another New York City borough name, and is in the same family of liquor and vermouth drinks. (And, yes, there is another borough cocktail,… Continue reading Bronx Cocktail

Now we come to the Brandy Fizz, which is a recipe you can find much more easily than the previous Brandy Cocktail. The modern drink is still the same as this classic, and the recipe is older than the 1930s, showing up back in the late 1800’s (though with a lot less lemon juice in… Continue reading Brandy Fizz

Next up in Lommebogen is the Brandy Cocktail. Try Googling that one. Yeah, you get all kind of brandy cocktails, but it’s impossible to find hits for the Brandy Cocktail. So, this is just going from what is in the three books, without any modern research. I’m just not that patient or persistent, especially when… Continue reading Brandy Cocktail

The cocktail that comes first alphabetically in Lommebogen, and also matches my triple-book criteria, is the Blackthorn. This first one is a doozy. Let’s start with the name. Axel has it written down as Blach Torn. Torn is thorn in Danish, and generally Danish isn’t good with “th” in words. When I was looking at… Continue reading Blackthorn Cocktail