Showing posts with label 1933 edition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1933 edition. Show all posts

Thursday, June 28, 2018

94. Club Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1.5 oz Castle & Key London Dry Gin
  0.5 oz Yzaguirre Rojo
  1 dash Chartreuse (Green)

Shake well with ice, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This cocktail, new to the JM 1933, is found in The Savoy Cocktail book with yellow chartreuse. It is unknown whether Jack’s Manual, borrowing perhaps from Savoy, or else local tradition, omitted this by accident or purposefully changed it. With Green, it is similar to a Bijou with altered proportions. The lighter, sweeter quality of the Yellow tends to disappear this ratio.

Saturday, June 23, 2018

89. Claridge Cocktail


My interpretation:
  .75 oz Castle & Key London Dry Gin
  .75 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry
  .75 oz Hiram Walker Apricot
  .75 oz Cointreau 

Shake well (20 seconds) with ice, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — A new, fairly well balanced liqueur-rich dessert drink for the 1933 edition. It also appears in Craddock’s 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book.




Wednesday, June 13, 2018

79. Chinese Cocktail


My interpretation:
  1.5 oz Jack Rudy grenadine
  1.5 oz Myers’s Rum
  2 dashes Angostura bitters
  4 dashes Luxardo maraschino
  4 dashes Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao

Shake well (20 seconds) with broken ice, strain into cocktail glass. — The Chinese Cocktail was added to the JM 1933 without precedent in previous editions of the Manual. The proportions on such drinks with multiple dashes of this and that are best kept when we take into account that the original jigger is 2 ounces. Thus in increasing the drink volume for modern taste to about 3 ounces total, the bitters and minor additions may also need adjustment.
 

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

66. B. V. D. Cocktail


My interpretation:
  0.33 oz Bacardí 8 (1/3 pony)
  1.66 oz Bombay Sapphire
  1 oz  Gallo Extra Dry

Shake well (20 seconds) with ice, strain into cocktail glass. — This classic cocktail, not appearing in previous editions of JM, was added to the Post-Prohibition 1933 edition from an unknown source, perhaps with intentional adjustment of the proportions. It calls for a gin-heavy drink light on the rum, where other recipes often call for equal parts. A cynic might call it a “Dry Martini with a dash of rum.”
 

Turning the Page

Greetings! We have come to the end of the Cocktails section from Jack’s Manual (1933). In the process of our study, we have discovered so...