First off, when making a drink, accuracy means uniformity. There is good reason to attain this goal. This is a true bartender's badge of fine craftsmenship. It is your gaurantee that the drink you mix today, will taste exactly as good as the one you made last week. Anything short of accuracy results in a mixture which will claim to be "just as good". Establish a mutual confidence between "he who serves" and "he who sips".
Glassware should be more than clean. IT SHOULD SPARKLE. Use correct glassware as noted in the recipes. Correct glassware helps to make the drink, just as "clothes help make the man".
-Charles Butterworth (Every Day’s A Holiday 1937)“Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”
- Classic Dry Gin Martini
- 1.5 to 2 ounces (45 to 60 mL) Gin
- 1 drop to 1 ounce (up to 30 ml) of dry Vermouth depending on taste
- A dash of orange bitters (optional)
- Ice
- Garnish – olives, lemon wedges
- Shake well and strain into cocktail glass
- Shaken or stirred? It's a matter of personal preference. Some martini drinkers prefer stirring, objecting to the cloudiness that forms when the drink is shaken and claiming that shaking "bruises" the gin and creates a more bitter taste. Other connoisseurs claim that shaking releases the flavor of the gin, and they point out that the cloudiness induced by shaking goes away pretty quickly.
- Vermouth is a necessary component of a martini. A glass of cold gin without vermouth is just that – cold gin. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not a cocktail and it's certainly not a martini.
- The balance of vermouth to gin is a matter of great controversy among martini connoisseurs. Try differing amounts of vermouth for yourself and make up your own mind. Your preferences are not wrong.
- Use top-shelf gin if possible. Boodles, Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray 10 gin make extraordinary, clear-as-a-diamond martinis. Don't be afraid to try exotic and sometimes hard to find gins like Plymouth (England), Hendricks (Scotland) or Desert Juniper (Oregon).
- Chill crystal martini glasses in the freezer. Alternatively, fill with cubed ice to chill the glass then discard before straining the martini into it. Caution – this option can lead to a more watered drink.
- The olive and the cocktail onion are both later (though undoubtedly still classic) variations on the traditional martini, the sole garnish of which was a bruised/rubbed lemon peel.
- For a dirty martini add a small splash of olive juice and extra olives for garnish. Try by adding one part olive brine from the jar or you can buy specialty “Dirty Martini Olive Juice” from an Internet retailer.
- For a "smoked" martini, follow recipe for a dirty martini and add a dash of single malt scotch to give it a nice smoky taste.
Original Black Widow Cocktail
1 Cocktail glass (chilled)
Mixing glass, FINE Ice
1/4 jigger of Absinthe
1 1/2 Jiggers of Tequila or Brandy
Shake extra well and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a Black Olive.
Box Car Cocktail
1 Champagne glass (chilled)
Mixing glass, FINE Ice
1/2 of Lime juice
1/2 Jigger of Grenadine
1/2 Jigger of Cointreau
3/4 Jigger Gin
1 egg white
Shake well, strain into champagne glass
Side Car Cocktail -my favorite! <3
1 Cocktail glass (chilled)
1 1/2 oz Cognac
3/4 oz Cointreau
1/4 Lemon juice (real lemon)
Shake well, srain into cocktail glass, rimm with sugar
Lemon to garnish
Mae West Cocktail
1 Cocktail glass (chilled)
Mixing glass, FINE Ice
Juice of 1/2 a Lime
1/2 Jigger of Genadine
1 1/2 Jiggers Brandy
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass
Decorate with 2 cherries, and lemon peel twist
Old Fashioned
(Build)
1 Old Fashioned glass
1 cube of sugar
1 dash Angosttura Bitters
Cover sugar with Seltzer
Mull (crush) sugar
1 large cube of ice
1 Jigger Whiskey
Decorate with red cherry and slice orange on toothpick
Twist and drop lemon peel
Remember, when presenting your friends with a perfectly made drink, it's all about style darling! The fun of shaking, stirring, and garnishing a drink in a crystal glass adds to the glitz and glamour of serving a vintage cocktail. Hope you enjoy!
xoxo
Remember, when presenting your friends with a perfectly made drink, it's all about style darling! The fun of shaking, stirring, and garnishing a drink in a crystal glass adds to the glitz and glamour of serving a vintage cocktail. Hope you enjoy!
xoxo
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