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Alexander cocktail This authentic recipe of the period is from Just Cocktails, published in 1939. Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. This cocktails is said to have been named in honor of Round Tabler Alexander Woolcott. |
Professor Klaus Hansen, of Norway, has announced that he recently drank a
98 per cent solution of "heavy water" (H O) without experiencing any ill effects.
That's what he thinks. That's what the man said who first drank an Alexander cocktail.
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Dry Martini This authentic recipe of the period is from Just Cocktails, published in 1939. One British cocktail maker's manual of the 1930 offers this advice on making martinis: The Martini Cocktail should be prepared in the mixing glass and stirred up. In America, however, it has been the fashion, since a few years, to shake this cocktail until thoroughly cold. |
"Why don't you slip out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
I'd offer you a whiskey sour, but that would mean thinking up a new joke.
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Orange Blossom Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. |
The first social drink he took was an Orange Blossom, and he tried one
sip, then put the glass down and looked around the room, "This place ought
to be closed by law," he said and everybody fell off their chairs with laughter.
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