Stir in shaker with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. (Can also be served with ice in an old-fashioned glass).
Champagne Cocktail:
Place sugar cube in a champagne flute and saturate with Angostura bitters. Fill with champagne, twist lemon peel over top and drop in with an orange slice.
Chicago Fizz:
Shake first five ingredients with ice and strain into a collins glass over ice. Fill with soda.
* Coconut Dream:
Shake well with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
* Collinses...:
Tom Collins: (The daddy of them all)
Stir first three ingredients well over ice cubes in a collins glass. Fill wih soda. Garnish with a cherry and a lemon slice.
Variations:
Pedro Collins - white rum
Rum Collins - dark rum
Captain Collins - Canadian whiskey
Canuck Collins - Canadian Club
Sandy Collins - Scotch
Colonel Collins - Bourbon
Mike Collins - Irish whiskey
Pierre Collins - Cognac
Jack Collins - Calvados (Apple brandy)
Joan Collins - Brandy
Redneck Collins - Jack Daniels
Georgia Collins - Southern Comfort (Peach Schnapps, optional)
Vodka or Joe Collins - Vodka
Ruben or Pepito Collins - Tequila
Pisco Collins - Pisco brandy
* 3/4 oz. dry vermouth
* 1/4 oz. green creme de menthe
* champagne
* 1 sugar cube
* dash Angostura bitters
* lemon peel
* orange slice
* 3/4 oz. white rum
* 3/4 oz. ruby port
* 3/4 oz. lemon juice
* 1 egg white
* 1 bsp. powdered sugar
* soda to fill
* 3/4 oz. white creme de cacao
* 1/4 oz. creme de banane
* 1/4 oz. coconut creme
* 1 1/2 oz. cream
* 2 oz. gin
* 3/4 oz. lemon juice
* 1/2 oz. sugar syrup
* soda
* stemmed cherry
* lemon slice
Stir in shaker with ice and strain into a martini glass.
* Cherry Blossom:
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. (cherry optional, but kind of expected).
* Cherry Fizz:
Shake first three ingredients with ice and strain into a collins glass with ice. Fill with soda and add a little cherry juice. (orange, cherry garnish?).
* Clover Club: (a.k.a. Pink Lady)
Shake well with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. (grenadine can be carefully drizzled on top in the shape of a heart.)
* 2 dashes cherry liqueur
* 2 dashes lemon juice
* dash orange bitters
* 1 oz. brandy
* 1/4 oz. cherry brandy
* 3/4 oz. lemon juice
* dash grenadine
* 3/4 oz. cherry brandy
* 3/4 oz. brandy
* 3/4 oz. lemon juice
* soda to fill
* dash cherry juice
* 1 1/2 oz. gin
* 3/4 oz. lemon juice
* 1 egg white
* 1 bsp. powdered sugar
* dash grenadine