cocktails

The "Brandy Alexander"

- 3 cl cognac

- 3 cl brown crème de cacao

- 3 cl light cream

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain contents into a cocktail glass. Sprinkle nutmeg on top and serve.
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The "Americano"

- 3 cl Campari

- 3 cl red vermouth

- A splash of soda water

Pour the Campari and vermouth over ice into glass, add a splash of soda water and garnish with half orange slice.
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The "Angel Face"

- 3 cl gin

- 3 cl Apricot brandy

- 3 cl Calvados

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain contents into a cocktail glass.
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The "Aviation"

- 4.5 cl gin

- 1.5 cl lemon juice

- 1.5 maraschino liqueur

- .75 cl crème de violette liqueur

Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.
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The "Bacardi"

- 4.5 cl white rum

- 2 cl lime juice

- 1 cl grenadine syrup

Shake together with ice. Strain into glass and serve.
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The "Between the Sheets"

- 3 cl white rum

- 3 cl cognac

- 3 cl triple sec

- 2 cl fresh lemon juice

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes, shake, strain into chilled cocktail glass.
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The "Casino"

- 4 cl gin (Old Tom)

- 1 cl Maraschino

- 1 cl orange bitters

- 1 cl fresh lemon juice

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist and a maraschino cherry. Serve without a straw.
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The "Clover Club"

- 4.5 cl gin

- 1.5 cl lemon juice

- 1.5 cl raspberry syrup

- 1 egg white

Dry shake ingredients to emulsify, add ice, shake and served straight up.
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The "Daiquiri"

- 4.5 cl white rum

- 2.5 cl lime juice

- 1.5 cl simple syrup

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain in chilled cocktail glass.
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The "Derby"

- 6 cl gin

- 2 dashes peach bitters

- 2 fresh mint leaves

Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice. Stir. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint in the drink.
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The "Dry Martini"

- 6 cl gin

- 1 cl dry vermouth

Pour all ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well. Strain in chilled martini cocktail glass. Squeeze oil from lemon peel onto the drink, or garnish with olive.
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The "Gin fizz"

- 4.5 cl gin

- 3 cl fresh lemon juice

- 1 cl Gomme syrup

- 8 cl soda water

Shake all ingredients with ice cubes, except soda water. Pour into glass. Top with soda water.
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The "John Collins"

- 4.5 cl gin

- 3 cl freshly squeezed lemon juice

- 1.5 cl sugar syrup

- 6 cl carbonated water

Pour all ingredients directly into highball glass filled with ice. Stir gently. Garnish. Add a dash of Angostura bitters.
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The "Manhattan"

- 5 cl rye whiskey

- 2 cl sweet red vermouth

- dash of angostura bitters

Stirred over ice, strained into a chilled glass, garnished, and served up.
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The "Mary Pickford"

- 6 cl white rum

- 6 cl fresh pineapple juice

- 1 cl Grenadine

- 1 cl Maraschino

Shake and strain into a chilled large cocktail glass.
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The "Monkey Gland"

- 5 cl gin

- 3 cl orange juice

- 2 drops absinthe

- 2 drops grenadine

Shake well over ice cubes in a shaker, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
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The "Negroni"

- 3 cl gin

- 3 cl sweet red vermouth

- 3 cl campari

Stir into glass over ice, garnish and serve.
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The "Old Fashioned"

- 4.5 cl bourbon or rye whiskey

- 2 dashes angostura bitters

- 1 sugar cube

- few dashes plain water

Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitters, add a dash of plain water. Muddle until dissolved. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey.

Garnish with orange twist, and a cocktail cherry.
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The "Paradise"

- 3.5 cl gin

- 2 cl apricot brandy

- 1.5 cl orange juice

Shake together over ice. Strain into cocktail glass and serve chilled.
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The "Planter's Punch"

- 4.5 cl dark rum

- 3.5 cl fresh orange juice

- 3.5 cl fresh pineapple juice

- 3 cl fresh lemon juice

- 1 cl sugar syrup

- 3 or 4 dashes angostura bitters

Pour all ingredients, except the bitters, into shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Pour into large glass, filled with ice. Add Angostura bitters, "on top". Garnish with cocktail cherry and pineapple.
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The "Porto Flip"

- 1.5 cl brandy

- 4.5 cl port

- 1 cl egg yolk

Shake ingredients together in a mixer with ice. Strain into glass, garnish and serve.
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The "Ramos fizz"

- 4.5 cl gin

- 1.5 cl lime juice

- 1.5 cl fresh lemon juice

- 3 cl simple syrup

- 6 cl cream

- 1 egg white

- 3 dashes orange flower water

- 2 drops vanilla extract

- soda water

All ingredients except the soda are poured in a mixing glass, dry shaken (no ice) for two minutes, then ice is added and shaken hard for another minute.

Strained into a highball glass without ice and topped with soda.
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The "Rusty Nail"

- 4.5 cl scotch whiskey

- 2.5 cl Drambuie

Pour all ingredients directly into old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Stir gently. Garnish with a lemon twist. Serve.
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The "Sazerac"

- 5 cl cognac

- 1 cl absinthe

- One sugar cube

- Two dashes Peychaud's Bitters

Rinse a chilled old-fashioned glass with the absinthe, add crushed ice, and set it aside. Stir the remaining ingredients over ice and set it aside.

Discard the ice and any excess absinthe from the prepared glass, and strain the drink into the glass. Add the lemon peel for garnish.
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The "Screwdriver"

- 5 cl vodka

- 10 cl orange juice

Mix in a highball glass with ice. Garnish with orange slice and serve.
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The "Sidecar"

- 5 cl cognac

- 2 cl triple sec

- 2 cl lemon juice

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
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The "Stinger"

- 5 cl cognac

- 2 cl white crème de menthe

Pour in a mixing glass with ice, stir and strain into a cocktail glass. May also be served on rocks in a rocks glass.
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The "Tuxedo"

- 3 cl gin (Old Tom)

- 3 cl dry vermouth

- 1/2 barspoon maraschino

- 1/4 barspoon absinthe

- 3 dashes orange bitters

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry and a twist of lemon zest.
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The "Whiskey Sour"

- 4.5 cl bourbon whiskey

- 3 cl fresh lemon juice

- 1.5 cl Gomme syrup

- Dash egg white (optional)

Shake with ice. Strain into chilled glass, garnish and serve.

Note: If served 'On the rocks', strain ingredients into old-fashioned glass filled with ice.
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The "White Lady"

- 4 cl gin

- 3 cl triple sec

- 2 cl lemon juice

Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into large cocktail glass.

Note: This cocktail is a variant of the Sidecar.
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The "Bellini"

- 10 cl Prosecco

- 5 cl fresh peach purée

Pour peach purée into chilled flute, add sparkling wine. Stir gently.

Note: Traditionally a Bellini uses white peaches for the fruit.
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The "Black Russian"

- 5 cl vodka

- 2 cl coffee liqueur

Pour the ingredients into an old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.
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The "Bloody Mary"

- 4.5 cl vodka

- 9 cl tomato juice

- 1.5 cl lemon juice

- 2 to 3 dashes of Worcestershire sauce

- Tabasco

- Celery Salt

- Pepper

Stirring gently, pour all ingredients into highball glass. Garnish.
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The "Caipirinha"

- 5 cl cachaça

- half a lime cut into 4 wedges

- 2 teaspoons sugar

Place lime and sugar into old fashioned glass and muddle (mash the two ingredients together using a muddler or a wooden spoon). Fill the glass with ice and add the Cachaça.

Notes: A wide variety of fresh fruits can be used in place of lime. In the absence of cachaça, vodka can be used, making a caipiroska.
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The "Champagne Cocktail"

- 9 cl champagne

- 1 cl cognac

- 2 dashes angostura bitters

- 1 sugar cube

Add dash of Angostura bitter onto sugar cube and drop it into champagne flute. Add cognac followed by gently pouring chilled champagne. Garnish with orange slice and maraschino cherry.
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The "Cosmopolitan"

- 4 cl vodka citron

- 1.5 cl Cointreau

- 1.5 cl fresh lime juice

- 3 cl cranberry juice

Add all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and double strain into large cocktail glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

Note: The drink should be a frothy bright pink color.
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The "Cuba Libre"

- 12 cl cola

- 5 cl light rum

- 1 cl fresh lime juice

Build all ingredients in a Collins glass filled with ice. Garnish with lime wedge.
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The "French 75"

- 3 cl gin

- 2 dashes simple syrup

- 1.5 cl lemon juice

- 6 cl Champagne

Combine gin, syrup, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled champagne glass. Top up with Champagne. Stir gently.
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The "French Connection"

- 3.5 cl cognac

- 3.5 cl Disaronno liqueur

Pour all ingredients directly into old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.
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The "Godfather"

- 3.5 cl Scotch whiskey

- 3.5 cl amaretto

Pour all ingredients directly into old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.
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The "Godmother"

- 3.5 cl vodka

- 3.5 cl amaretto

Pour all ingredients directly into old fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently.
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The "Golden Dream"

- 2 cl Galliano

- 2 cl triple sec

- 2 cl fresh orange juice

- 1 cl fresh cream

Shake with cracked ice. Strain into glass and serve.

Note: Should be quite fluffy.
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The "Grasshopper"

- 3 cl crème de menthe (green)

- 3 cl crème de cacao (white)

- 3 cl fresh cream

Pour ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake briskly and then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
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The "Harvey Wallbanger"

- 4.5 cl vodka

- 1.5 cl Galliano

- 9 cl fresh orange juice

Stir the vodka and orange juice with ice in the glass, then float the Galliano on top. Garnish and serve.
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The "Hemingway Special"

- 6 cl rum

- 4 cl grapefreuit juice

- 1.5 cl Maraschino liqueur

- 1.5 cl fresh lime juice

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake.
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The "Horse's Neck"

- 4 cl brandy

- 12 cl ginger ale

- dash of Angostura bitters (optional)

Pour brandy and ginger ale directly into highball glass with ice cubes. Stir gently. Garnish with lemon zest. If desired, add dashes of Angostura bitters.
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The "Irish Coffee"

- 4 cl Irish whiskey

- 8 cl hot coffee

- 3 cl fresh cream

- 1 tsp brown sugar

Heat the coffee, whiskey and sugar; do not boil. Pour into glass and top with cream; serve hot.
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The "Kir"

- 9 cl white wine

- 1 cl crème de cassis

Add the crème de cassis to the bottom of the glass, then top up with wine.
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The "Long Island Iced Tea"

- 1.5 cl tequila

- 1.5 cl vodka

- 1.5 cl white rum

- 1.5 cl triple sec

- 1.5 cl gin

- 2.5 cl lemon juice

- 3 cl Gomme Syrup

- 1 dash of cola

Add all ingredients into highball glass filled with ice. Stir gently. Garnish with lemon spiral. Serve with straw.
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The "Man Tai"

- 4cl white rum

- 2 cl dark rum

- 1.5 cl orange curaçao

- 1.5 cl orgeat syrup

- 1 cl fresh lime juice

Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into glass. Garnish and serve with straw.
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The "Margarita"

- 3.5 cl tequila

- 2 cl Cointreau

- 1.5 cl lime juice

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass rimmed with salt.
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The "Mimosa"

- 7.5 cl champagne

- 7.5 cl orange juice

Ensure both ingredients are well chilled, then mix into the glass. Serve cold.
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The "Mint Julep"

- 6 cl Bourbon whiskey

- 4 mint leaves

- 1 teaspoon powdered sugar

- 2 teaspoons water

In a highball glass gently muddle the mint, sugar and water. Fill the glass with cracked ice, add Bourbon and stir well until the glass is well frosted. Garnish with a mint sprig.
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The "Mojito"

- 4 cl white rum

- 3 cl fresh lime juice

- 6 sprigs of mint

- 2 teaspoons sugar

- soda water

Muddle mint leaves with sugar and lime juice. Add a splash of soda water and fill the glass with cracked ice. Pour the rum and top with soda water. Garnish and serve with straw.
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The "Moscow Mule"

- 4.5 cl vodka

- 0.5 cl lime juice

- 12 parts ginger beer

Combine vodka and ginger beer in a highball glass filled with ice. Add lime juice. Stir gently. Garnish.
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The "Piña Colada"

- 3 cl white rum

- 3 cl coconut milk

- 9 cl pineapple juice

Mix with crushed ice in blender until smooth. Pour into chilled glass, garnish and serve.

Note: Alternately, the three main components can simply be added to a cocktail glass, and then add ice cubes.
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The "Rose"

- 4 cl dry vermouth

- 2 cl Kirsch

- 3 dashes strawberry syrup

Shake together in a cocktail shaker, then strain into chilled glass. Garnish and serve.
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The "Sea Breeze"

- 4 cl vodka

- 12 cl cranberry juice

- 3 cl grapefruit juice

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with lime wedge.
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The "Sex on the Beach"

- 4 cl vodka

- 2 cl peach schnapps

- 4 cl orange juice

- 4 cl cranberry juice

Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange slice.
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The "Singapore Sling"

- 3 cl gin

- 1.5 cl cherry liqueur (cherry brandy)

- 0.75 cl cointreau

- 0.75 cl DOM Bénédictine

- 1 cl grenadine

- 12 cl pineapple juice

- 1.5 cl fresh lime juice

- 1 dash angostura bitters

Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into highball glass. Garnish with pineapple and cocktail cherry.
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The "Tequila Sunrise"

- 4.5 cl tequila

- 9 cl orange juice

- 1.5 cl grenadine syrup

Pour the tequila and orange juice into glass over ice. Add the grenadine, which will sink to the bottom. Stir gently to create the sunrise effect. Garnish and serve.