Category: Recipes
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Champs Elysées
I’ve been making a lot of cocktails out of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails of late, but my library runs much deeper. So, in an effort to break out of my routine a bit I perused Anvil’s drink list this morning for inspiration and made a quick list of a few I haven’t tried. If…
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Lucien Gaudin Cocktail
After the last cocktail I need something that I know sounds delicious. That in mind, I leafed through my Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails looking at the cocktails I’d marked to mix at some point. There on page 196 is a picture of a ruby red cocktail that I knew was going to fit the…
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Rob Roy
It should come as no surprise to long time readers of this blog that I love Manhattans. They’re one of my go to cocktails when I’m looking for something straight forward but delicious. They’re one of the classics that I’ll actually order at a restaurant (and I’m usually not disappointed). And, finally, they’re just damn…
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Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
Knowing I was going to be mixing up a bunch of hot chocolate for this group of drinks I wanted to try my hand at making my own powdered hot chocolate mix. I had seen a recipe on Good Eats a while back that sounded really tasty, included only ingredients I could actually pronounce and…
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The Delicious Sour – Aptly Named
While the middle of winter isn’t generally the time you crave a nice, cold sour, I found this one to have truly been aptly named. The delicious sour is nicely balanced, big, cold and frothy. First on your palate you get fruity hints of the apple and peach. Following that, I noted that it wasn’t…