Here’s three tequila recipes to muck about with using the good stuff from Jalisco.
Recipes
Drinks
This Tuxedo cocktail recipe is of a piece with the Martinez, Martini and Turf Club; all storied drinks themselves, with long and somewhat dubious histories.
We look at the cocktail list of Sydney bar Stitch, and the reasons why they put an innovative, in-house solera system into the bar.
We’ve dug into the archives for our favourite three Margarita recipes — the classic, the Tommy’s, and one from left-field from the legends at Tio’s Cerveceria.
Try this Commander & Chief recipe from the world’s number one bar, New York’s Dead Rabbit Grocery & Grog, and toast their 4th birthday.
This classic Holland House recipe is as obscure a classic as you get (there’s mention of it with gin in the Savoy Cocktail Book, and earlier on, in Kappeler’s 1895 Modern American Drinks calls for rye whiskey), but with genever in the mix the drink sings.
There’s a national day for everything in America, but we do like January 25th: it’s National Irish Coffee Day, and here’s the only two Irish Coffee recipes you’ll need.
This Gimlet recipe makes a great drink, and a big part of that is MONIN’s Lime Juice Cordial — made with 50 per cent juice (a mix of both lime and some lemon) and made, as with all Monin’s sweet stuff, with real cane sugar. It’s got some great, juicy acidity balanced with sweetness.
Vanguard adds Don Fulano Tequila & Derrumbes Mezcal it its portfolio
Here’s a drink that can rightly be called a modern classic cocktail; add this Chartreuse Swizzle recipe to your repertoire.
The Swizzle is a simple idea: take a tall glass, add booze, add lots of crushed ice, and take your respite from the heat of summer — for your refreshment, here’s the Saint Tropez Swizzle at Kittyhawk.
In Jerry Thomas’s 1862 book, there are seven different recipes for Cobblers, with their chief difference being the ingredient that the formulation championed — here, for our regular Threeway feature, we’ve got three Cobbler recipes for you.