Tom Collins
Named after the NewYork locality where it was first drunk in the 1890s, this drink was originally made with old Tom gin, the best known among the brand of sweetened gins
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Ingredients:
60 ml gin
10 ml fresh lime juice
10 ml sugar syrup
soda to top up
Glass: Collins
Garnish: Lime slice and cherry
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Steps:
1. Pour all the ingredients into a Collins glass, stir well and top up with soda.
2. Stir again and add the garnish and serve.
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Dry Martini
Said to be invented for John D.Rockefeller by a bartender, Martini, of New York
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Ingredients:
60 ml gin
Dash (2 to 3 drops) of dry vermouth
Glass: Cocktail, frosted
Garnish: Stuffed olive/green olive
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Steps:
1. Pour the gin into a cocktail shaker.
2. Add dash of vermouth and two to four cubes of ice.
3. Stir well so that no flavour dominates.
4. Garnish with olive.
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Million Dollar
Gives a heady feeling of having a million dollars
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Ingredients:
30 ml gin
30 ml sweet vermouth
10 ml fresh lime juice
5 ml grenadine syrup
Dash of egg white
30 ml pineapple juice
Glass: Champagne Tulip
Garnish: Pineapple and cherry
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Steps:
1. Put two to three cubes of ice into a cocktail shaker and add all the ingredients.
2. Shake well, stir and pour into the glass with the garnish on top. Serve.
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White Lady
There are several versions of this elegant little drink. Some use vodka as base, but gin is the most popular starting point.
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Ingredients:
30 ml gin
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml lemon juice
half an egg white
ice cubes
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: None
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Steps:
1. Place the gin, contreau, lemon juice and egg white in a cocktail shaker with four ice cubes.
2. Shake very well, then strain into a cocktail glass.
3. Serve undecorated.
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Screwdriver
Supposed to be invented by oil men who used screwdrivers to stir the drinks
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Ingredients:
60 ml vodka
120ml orange juice
Glass: Highball
Garnish: Half an orange slice
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Steps:
1. Mix the orange juice and the vodka in the glass.
2. Add two or three cubes of ice. Stir.
3. Decorate rim of glass with half an orange slice.
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Harvey Wallbanger
Named after a drunk man who collided with a wall after imbibing this drink
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Ingredients:
30 ml vodka
60 ml orange juice
2 tsp Galliano
ice cubes
Glass: Highball
Garnish: A slice of orange
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Steps:
1. Place 5 ice cubes in a cocktail shaker, add the vodka and orange juice and shake well.
2. Strain into a Highball glass and add two cubes of ice.
3. Float two teaspoons of Galliano on the top and decorate with a slice of orange.
4. Serve with a straw.
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White Russian
A variation of Black Russian topped with fresh cream
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Ingredients:
30 ml vodka
30 ml cafe liqueur
15 ml fresh cream
Glass: Highball
Garnish: Chocolate flakes
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Steps:
1. Pour the vodka, cafe liqueur and fresh cream into the blender.
2. Blend vigorously with two cubes of ice.
3. Strain into the glass.
4. Add chocolate flakes for garnish.
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Blue Lagoon
Blue drinks always add an exotic touch to party. This one is no exception.
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Ingredients:
60 ml vodka
30 ml blue curacau
60 ml pineapple juice
3 dashes green chartreuse
crushed ice
Glass: Lowball
Garnish: A slice of pineapple
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Steps:
1. Place half a cup of crushed ice in a cocktail shaker and add the vodka, blue curacao, pineaplle juice and green chatreuse.
2. Shake well and strain into a Lowball glass.
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Bourbon Old Fashioned
The whiskey used must be American, preferably Jack Daniels
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Ingredients:
60 ml bourbon
Dash of Angostura bitters
Cube of sugar
60 ml soda
Glass: Old-fashioned or Roly Poly
Garnish: Half an orange slice, a slice of lime and a cherry
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Steps:
1. Stir all the ingredients.
2. Pour into old-fashioned or Roly Poly glass on the rocks (4 to 5 cubesa of ice)
Garnish with the orange and lemon slices and cherry.
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Whiskey Sour
The most classical mixed drink based on spirits, citrus juice and sugar
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Ingredients:
60 ml Scotch whiskey
10 ml fresh lime juice
10 ml sugar syrup
Dash egg white
Glass: Collins
Garnish: Lime slice and cherry
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Steps:
1. Pour all the ingredients into the blender and blend well.
2. Pour into the glass and add the slice of lime and cherry.
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Manhattan
A variation using bourbon instead of rye. One of the basic cocktails, usually made with rye.
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Ingredients:
45 ml bourbon
15 ml sweet vermouth
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: A cherry
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Steps:
1. Stir the ingredients well, adding two to three ice cubes.
2. Strain into glass.
3. Add the cherry and serve.
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Perfect Manhattan
A Perfect Manhattan is a variation of Dry Manhattan using the same amount of vermouth but half italian sweet and half french dry
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Ingredients:
30 ml rye whiskey
15 ml sweet vermouth
15 ml dry vermouth
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: Twist of lime
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Steps:
1. Stir rye whiskey, sweet vermouth and dry vermouth well into ice cubes.
2. Strain into a cocktail glass.
3. Garnish with a twist of lime.
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Planter's punch
A classic mixed drink, ideally made with Jamaican dark rum.
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Ingredients:
60 ml dark rum
60 ml pineaplle juice
60 ml orange juice
5 ml fresh lime juice
Glass: Highball
Garnish: Half each of orange and lime slice and cherry
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Steps:
1. Put 2 to 3 cubes of ice into a Highball glass.
2. Add fresh lime, pineapple juice and orange juice.
3. Add the rum so that it floats on top.
4. Garnish and serve.
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Pina Colada
Most popular among mixed drinks.
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Ingredients:
60 ml white rum
10 ml fresh lime juice
15 ml fresh cream
15 ml coconut milk or cream
120 ml pineapple juice
Glass: Half a small pineapple shell
Garnish: Cherries
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Steps:
1. Shake all the ingredients so that they are all well blended.
2. Pour the mixture into the pineapple shell.
3. Garnish with cherries.
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Egg Nog
An ideal after dinner drink
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Ingredients:
30 ml rum
30 ml brandy
1 egg
Hot milk
15 ml fresh cream
Glass: Wine
Garnish: Pinch of cinnamon
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Steps:
1. Pour all the ingredients in the shaker and blend vigorously.
2. Add hot milk and stir.
3. Pour in the Wine glass. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Serve.
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Mai-Tai
Name is now similar to a chinese cocktail, but is now a classic cocktail.
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Ingredients:
15 ml white rum
15 ml dark rum
15 ml brandy
15 ml cointreau
10 ml fresh lime juice
10 ml sugar syrup
5 ml grenadine syrup
Dash of Angostura bittrers
120 ml orange juice
crushed ice
Glass: Beer Goblet
Garnish: Pineapple wedge and a cherry
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Steps:
1. Pour all the ingredients except orange juice and crushed ice into the Boston Shaker and shake well.
2. Add crushed ice and orange juice.
3. Pour into the beer goblet, garnish with the pineapple and cherry.
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Grasshopper
A popular delightful cocktail
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Ingredients:
20 ml brandy
15ml cacao white
15 ml green creme de menthe
5 ml fresh lime
10 ml fresh cream
Glass: Champagne Saucer
Garnish: Mint sprig
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Steps:
1. Pour all the ingredients into a boston shaker.
2. Add two or three cubes of ice and shake well.
3. Strain into a glass and add mint sprig.
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B & B
Named so from the first alphabet of the basic spirits used
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Ingredients:
30 ml brandy
30 ml Benedictine
Glass: Brandy Snifer
Garnish: None
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Steps:
1. Pour the two liqueurs into the glass and stir.
2. Serve without ice.
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Blue Margarita
Said to be named after a Mexican dancer
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Ingredients:
15 ml blue curacao
45 ml white tequila
10 ml fresh lime juice
10 ml sugar syrup
Glass: Champagne Saucer
Garnish: A slice of lime & cherry
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Steps:
1. Pour all the ingredients into the blender and blend well.
2. Salt the rim of the glass and pour in the mixture.
3. Garnish with the slice of lime on a cocktail stick.
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Irish Coffee
A popular night cap, also ideal for an after dinner House Of Lords hangout drink.
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Ingredients:
45 ml Irish whiskey
45 ml whipped cream
45 ml hot black coffee
45 ml castor sugar
Glass: Wine
Garnish: Chocolate flakes and a piece of praline
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Steps:
1. Pour coffee in glass.
2. Caramelise the sugar by heating in a small saucepan.
3. Add whiskey and stir till sugar melts.Light with a match to flambe.
4. Pour flaming whiskey into the glass.
5. Add whipped cream, a few drops of whiskey and garnish with chocolate flakes and praline.
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Vesuvio Fieroso
A drink as fiery as Mt.Vesuvius
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Ingredients:
45 ml Calvados
15 ml orange curacao
30 ml grapefruit juice
10 ml fresh lime juice
5 ml sugar syrup
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: Pineapple slice with a cherry inserted into it.
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Steps:
1. Pour all ingredients in a cockatail shaker and add two to three cubes of ice. Shake well. No one ingredient should dominate.
2. Garnish with pineapple slice and cherry.
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Emeralda Lily
A refreshing long drink that is perilously alcoholic
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Ingredients:
45 ml white rum
15 ml green creme de menthe
10 ml fresh lime
70 ml sugar syrup
120 ml pineapple juice
10 ml fresh cream
Dash of egg white
Crushed mint leaves
Glass: Beer Goblet
Garnish: Half a slice of orange and a sprig of mint
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Steps:
1. Blend all the ingredients in the blender.
2. Pour into a Beer Goblet.
3. Add crushed ice.
4. Garnish with mint and orange slice and serve.
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Tequila Sunrise
The ingredients are poured straight into the glass. the grenadine gives the effect of sunrise.
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Ingredients:
45 ml tequila
120 ml orange juice
5 ml grenadine syrup
Glass: Highball
Garnish: One orange slice
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Steps:
1. Rotate the grenadine syrup into the glass, add ice and orange juice.
2. Pour in the tequila and stir.
3. Garnish with orange juice. Serve.
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Kir Royale
An exotic champagne cocktail
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Ingredients:
120 ml champagne
10 ml Creme de Cassis
Glass: Champagne Tulip
Garnish: None
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Steps:
1. Pour champagne into a Tulip glass.
2. Top with Creme de Cassis.
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Lacrime dal Cielo
Tear's from Heaven. Named so by the barman after the song by Eric Clapton.
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Ingredients:
15 ml Cognac
15 ml Cointreau
15 ml Campari
30 ml grape juice
5 ml sugar syrup
10 ml fresh lime juice
Crushed ice
Rose Champagne as required
Glass: Champagne Saucer
Garnish: Half a pineapple slice and one cherry
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Steps:
1. Blend all the ingredients well, except the champagne.
2. Pour into the Champagne Saucer and add Rose champagne to fill the glass.
3. Garnish with slice of pineapple and cherry.
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