Things I want to remember - Filed under 'Cocktails'

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Cura

1 oz. rye
1 oz. Aperol
1 oz. Amaro Ramazotti
3 barspoons Cointreau
1 dash Peychaud’s
1 dash orange bitters

Combine in an old fashioned glass and swirl to mix. [Cure]

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March 8, 2010 / 1pm

Penicillin

2 oz. blended scotch
1/4 oz. Islay scotch
3/4 oz. lemon juice
3/4 oz. ginger-honey syrup

Shake and strain all but Islay scotch. Float Islay scotch on top over the back of a spoon.

To make ginger-honey syrup, combine 1 cup each of honey and water and bring to simmer. Add 1 oz. sliced ginger and cover for 15 minutes. Let cool and refrigerate. [Milk & Honey]

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January 13, 2010 / 7am

Applejackass

New Yorker, 13 March 1928:

Oh yes—I think I remember now. Two parts applejack, one part gin and the other part made up of a pony of Cointreau and the rest pineapple juice. He christened it the Applejackass. Yes—sure, on account of the kick. I had four and ...

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November 25, 2009 / 7am

Stumbler

2 oz. gin
1 oz. kümmel
1 oz. orange flower water

New Yorker, 13 March 1928:

Now get this—one-half gin, one-quarter kümmel and the other quarter orange-flower water, and try to get that last one. Somebody brought her up a bottle from Havana and I'm going to go down there some weekend to get another bottle. Say, after three of them I gave an impersonation of Elsie Janis doing John Barrymore and they had to drag me home.

Filed under Cocktails New Yorker

November 25, 2009 / 7am