Cocktails and Cocktail Recipes - Difford's Guide
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Perfect Martini Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
WEBHistory: The Perfect Martini sits between a Dry Martini (with gin and dry vermouth) and a Sweet Martini (with gin and rosso vermouth) so is logically called a Medium Martini in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.. MARTINI (MEDIUM) COCKTAIL. ¼ French Vermouth. ¼ Italian Vermouth. ½ Dry Gin. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Blue Lagoon Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
WEBto make a blue lagoon use vodka, blue curaçao liqueur, lime juice (freshly squeezed), lemon-lime soda (sprite/7-up) and garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry
Dirty Martini Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
WEBHistory: Cocktail historian David Wondrich has traced the origins of the Dirty Martini back to 1901 and a bartender called John E. O'Connor, who served a Dry Martini with muddled olives at New York's Waldorf Astoria. The first written reference to brine being added to a Martini-style cocktail appears in G.H. Steele's 1930 My New Cocktail Book. Good story: …
Casks - barrel, butt, punchon, pipe, barrique,hogshead - Difford's …
WEBBarrels are a particular size and shape of wooden cask. There are numerous other types of cask and the term ‘barrel’ is often wrongly used as a catch-all alternative generic for cask. Usually made of white oak, casks have been used since Roman times as a means of storing and transporting goods - everything from nails to whiskey.
20 best Blue Curaçao cocktails - Difford's Guide
WEBBlue curaçao equals BLUE DRINKS, or at least various shades of aquamarine. There are numerous other orange-flavoured liqueurs but blue curaçao stands out as the only vivid blue ingredient to be found in bars across the world. And like many things from the 1970s, blue drinks are retro and so back in vogue. Here's our best blue curaçao cocktails.
Pimm's Cup (or Classic Pimm's) Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide
WEBHow to make: POUR Pimm's into glass half filled with ice. Add fruit and fill glass with more ice. TOP with equal parts lemonade and ginger ale (or just use lemonade, or ginger ale).
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The Last Word cocktail - Difford's Guide
WEBto make a the last word cocktail use gin, chartreuse green, maraschino liqueur, lime juice (freshly squeezed), chilled water and garnish with lime zest twist expressed