Cocktail Recipes
Aviation Cocktail
2 ounces London dry gin
½ ounce Maraschino liqueur
½ ounce lemon juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a Maraschino Cherry.
Bellini
1½ ounces white peach puree
4 ounces Champagne
(Optional: ½-ounce peach liqueur)
Gently stir ingredients in a mixing glass and strain into a champagne flute. Optional: float a half-ounce of peach liqueur.
Blood and Sand
¾ ounce Scotch whisky
¾ ounce Cherry Heering
¾ ounce Italian sweet vermouth
¾ ounce fresh-squeezed orange juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
Bloody Mary
1½ ounces vodka
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
4 dashes Tabasco sauce salt and pepper
¼ ounce fresh lemon juice
4 ounces tomato juice
Combine all ingredients in mixing glass and roll back and forth to mix. Strain into an chilled goblet. Garnish with a wedge of lemon, olives and a stick of celery. Celery salt and horseradish are optional.
Caipirinha (Caipirissima with Rum or Caipiroska with Vodka)
2 ounces cachaça
¾ ounce simple syrup
½ lime, quartered
Chill a rocks glass with cracked ice. Muddle lime and simple syrup in a mixing glass. Add cachaça and the ice into the mixing glass and shake well. Pour the entire contents back into the rocks glass and serve. Garnish with an orange peel.
Collins (Tom, John or Vodka)
1½ ounces London dry gin, bourbon, or vodka
1 ounce simple syrup
¾ ounce lemon juice
club soda
Shake spirits, sugar and lemon juice with ice, strain into an chilled collins glass and fill with soda. Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.
Cosmopolitan
1½ ounces citrus Vodka
¾ ounce Cointreau
¼ ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce cranberry juice
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
Daiquiri
1½ ounce white rum
¾ ounce simple syrup
¾ ounce fresh lime juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass. Note: Purists will hold out for the original recipe: juice of half a lime, ½ teaspoon superfine sugar, 2-ounces rum (assembled in that order, stirring the sugar into the lime juice before adding the rum).
Gimlet
2½ ounces London dry gin
½ ounce preserved lime juice
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass or over ice in an old fashioned. Garnish with lime wedge.
Gin Fizz
1½ ounces London dry gin
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
1 ounce simple syrup
Club soda
Shake and strain into a highball glass. Fill with club soda. No garnish.
Irish Coffee
1½ ounces Irish whiskey
1 ounce brown sugar syrup
4 ounces coffee
lightly whipped unsweetened cream
Combine first three ingredients in an Irish coffee glass. Ladle one inch of cream on top.
Mai Tai
2 ounces aged rum ¾ ounce lime juice 1 teaspoon orgeat syrup Shake thoroughly with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass filled with ice. Garnish with lime wheel and mint sprig.
Manhattan
2 ounces rye or bourbon whiskey
1 ounce Italian sweet vermouth
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass and stir. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry or a twist. You may substitute dry vermouth for a dry Manhattan with a lemon peel garnish, or half sweet and half dry for a “perfect” Manhattan.
Margarita
2 ounces 100% agave tequila
1 ounce Cointreau
¾ ounce fresh lime juice
½ ounce of agave syrup (optional)
Coarse salt Lime wedge
Combine first three ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled, salted cocktail glass.
Dry Martini (the traditional recipe)
1½ ounces London dry gin
1½ ounces dry vermouth
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Stir all ingredients with ice to chill and an orange or lemon twist on top. Substitute sweet vermouth for a Martinez.
Dry Martini
3 ounces London dry gin (or vodka)
⅛ ounce dry vermouth
Prepare a tall mixing glass with ice. Pour vermouth over ice and swirl to season, then strain vermouth off the ice. Pour gin or vodka over seasoned ice and stir to chill. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an olive.
Mint Julep
½ ounce of simple syrup
2 sprigs of mint
2 ounces bourbon
Gently bruise one sprig of mint in the bottom of a highball glass with simple syrup. Add half of the bourbon and half fill with crushed ice. Swirl with a barspoon until the outside of the glass frosts. Add more crushed ice and the remaining bourbon and stir again.
Garnish with a sprig of mint.
Mojito
1½ ounces white rum
¾ ounce fresh lime juice
¾ ounce simple syrup
1 mint sprig and 4 mint leaves
1 ounce soda
In a tall mixing glass muddle mint leaves with simple syrup. Add lime juice and rum and fill with ice. Shake vigorously and strain over fresh ice into a highball glass. Top with soda and garnish with a sprig of mint.
Negroni
1 ounce London dry gin
1 ounce Campari
1 ounce sweet vermouth
Soda (optional)
Combine all ingredients in an chilled old fashioned glass and stir. Garnish with an orange peel. Top with an ounce or two of soda or serve straight up, in which case it should be stirred with ice and strained into a chilled cocktail glass.
Old Fashioned
2 ounces bourbon
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 teaspoon sugar
2 orange slices
2 maraschino cherries
Splash of soda
Carefully muddle the sugar, Angostura, one orange, one cherry, and a splash of soda in the bottom of an old fashioned glass. Remove the orange rind and add bourbon, ice, and soda. Garnish with a fresh orange slice and a cherry. Note: The old-fashioned Old Fashioned recipe omits the fruit. Simply muddle the sugar and bitters in a splash of soda until the sugar is dissolved, forming a syrup. Add the whiskey and the ice, and stir. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Pisco Sour
2 ounces Pisco
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce simple syrup
1 small egg white
Several drops of Angostura Bitters
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a small cocktail glass. Garnish with several drops of Angostura Bitters on top of the foam
Whiskey Sour
2 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey
1 ounce simple syrup
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an old-fashioned glass or a special sour glass. Garnish with an orange slice and a cherry speared on a cocktail pick (known as a flag).
Rob Roy
2½ ounces Scotch whisky
¾ ounces sweet vermouth
Dash Angostura Bitters
Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass and stir as you would a Martini. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon peel.
Sazerac
2 ounces rye whiskey
2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
Splash of absinthe
½ ounce simple syrup
Herbsaint Anise Liqueur
Chill one rocks glass while preparing the drink in another. Splash the Herbsaint into the second glass, swirl it, then pour it out. Add rye, syrup, and bitters and stir with ice to chill. Strain into the chilled rocks glass and garnish with a lemon peel.
Sidecar
1½ ounces cognac
¾ ounce Cointreau
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled old fashioned glass or cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel. Note: If served “up” strain into a small cocktail glass with a sugared rim.
Stinger
2 ounces cognac
1 ounce white crème de Menthe
Shake both ingredients with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass filled with crushed ice or serve up in a chilled cocktail glass. Note that this is an exception to the rule that drinks with only liquors and liqueur should be stirred.