Dr. Cocktail lists only a single vintage recipe that uses sour mix, and since I had some on hand I decided to try The Fogcutter: 1.0 ounce white rum 0.5 ounce gin 0.5 ounce brandy 0.5 ounce Sour Mix Two…
Palm Beach Special
In our house we almost always have a grapefruit. It’s odd, because while we eat grapefruit we don’t do so very often, and since we always have one sometimes it hangs around past its prime. Thus we refer to it…
The Rose
I counted four cocktails in the list that call for raspberry syrup as an ingredient. In the Resource Guide section of the book, Dr. Cocktail recommends using Smucker’s Red Raspberry Syrup. Mine finally arrived so I present The Rose: 2…
Sherry Baby
In Chatham County, NC, where I live, we don’t have many options for cocktails. However, the always excellent Oak Leaf restaurant is usually a good place to go (especially on Tuesdays when cocktails are half price). They recently got a…
The Scofflaw
Look, gin is nice. I like gin, and gin makes a great base for many a cocktail. But I was getting a little tired of it so I went in search of a non-gin based drink. I found The Scofflaw:…
The Jack Rose Cocktail
When you have a bar in your living room, you end up collecting bottles of spirits. Some are gifts, some are random purchases and some end up there when people move and don’t want to ship the bottles, etc. Thus…
Park Avenue Cocktail
In my previous post I was lamenting the fact that I had returned from a trip and while I wanted to try a new cocktail, I was out of fresh fruit which limited my choices. The next morning I was…
Lucien Gaudin Cocktail
I had just come back from a trip to Germany, and even though my body was supposed to be at four in the morning, I found myself a little too wired to sleep. I figured a nice cocktail would be…
The Boulevardier
Of the 87 or so recipes in the book, I’ve seen a handful of them in the wild. This is one of them. According to the text, the cocktail was the signature drink of Erskine Gwynne who was an “expatriate…
The Avenue
I almost wanted to call this drink “The Amazon” since I had to order most of the ingredients on-line. 1 ounce bourbon 1 ounce Calvados 1 ounce passion fruit juice or nectar 1 dash real pomegranate grenadine 1 dash orange…