Jimmie Special Cocktail Recipe We recently found ourselves with a limited bar, but with just as much of an appetite for cocktails as usual. One of the things we happened to have on hand, a bit unusual for us, was champagne--left over from our batch of...
Boston Club Punch Cocktail Recipe Maybe you've noticed a slowdown in our posting. We've recently had to re-direct much of our attention to welcoming a new little member to our family. She's been delightful, but for a while there she wasn't leaving much time for cocktails. After...
Ward 8 Cocktail Recipe When we did our part in the revival of the once endangered West End of Boston with a couple of rounds of drinks at Ward 8, we were tempted by, but did not order, its namesake cocktail, there being too many other...
The Bee's Knees Cocktail Recipe We once made our own limoncello. It was delicious, and not at all complicated to make. And we've never done it again. While not technically difficult, it was a lot of work, in the form of zesting many, many, many lemons....
Aviation Cocktail Recipe When we stumbled across Arsenic and Old Lace last week, we were actually researching Aviation. The two have several things in common: a name that starts with 'A'; a gin base; creme de violette; and their earliest known appearance in Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for...
Death in the Gulf Stream Cocktail Recipe Our favorite drink from our time in Detroit was Amanda Mentzer's Worse for Wear. We mentioned in our write-up on it last week that it's based on a Hemingway hangover cure. Looking into it further, we discovered that the...
Arsenic & Old Lace Cocktail Recipe We stumbled across this recipe while we were doing some research on another one. It caught our attention and held it--fitting considering its original name is Attention. We'd never heard of it before, but it's actually a pretty old drink, though...
Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe As you'll know if you read our post 'What's the Ideal Dry Martini?', learning of Hemingway's preference for a 15 gin: 1 vermouth proportion sent us into some research on martini recipes over time. We, of course, found that gin to...
Ti' Punch Cocktail Recipe During Tiki Week, one of the recipes we considered featuring was Ti' Punch. In the end, though, it was beat out in the proto-tiki category by Planter's Punch. We kind of forgot about Ti' Punch until our friend Dan essentially demanded we...
Barbados Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe It took some coaxing and a lot of education, but we've gradually become fans of rum, and more quickly fans of tiki. It's true that tiki drinks can be a bit complicated; they take some preparation--of ingredients certainly, but even psychologically,...