Cock N' Bull Special

Cock N’ Bull Special

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Created by Jack Morgan at the Cock N’ Bull “British-style” pub on Sunset Strip, Hollywood, CA, USA, which was founded in 1937. The cocktail first appeared in Ted Saucier’s Bottom’s Up in 1951.

Ingredients

15 ml (½ oz) brandy
22.50 ml (¾ oz) Benedictine D.O.M.
22.50 ml (¾ oz) bourbon
7.50 ml (¼ oz) Triple Sec
Orange twist for garnish

Directions

Half-fill a mixing jug with ice.

Add all ingredients and stir until well-chilled.

Strain into a chilled coupe over a cube of ice.

Garnish with an orange twist.

Revolver

Revolver

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A caffeinated Manhattan variant, created by Jon Santer in the early 2000s at Bruno’s, San Francisco.

Ingredients

60 ml (2 oz) bourbon
15 ml (½ oz) coffee liqueur
2 dashes orange bitters
Orange twist for garnish

Directions

Half-fill a mixing jug with ice.

Add all ingredients and stir until well-chilled.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Express the oils from an orange twist and garnish with the twist.

RAC Special

R.A.C. Special

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The house cocktail at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, London, which featured in Harry Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Ingredients

50 ml (1⅔ oz) London Dry Gin
25 ml (⅚ oz) dry vermouth
25 ml (⅚ oz) sweet vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters
Orange peel for garnish

Directions

Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice.

Add all ingredients and shake until well-chilled.

Strain into a cocktail coupe.

Squeeze a piece of orange peel over the glass and discard.

Normandy Flower

Normandy Flower

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A refreshing calvados cocktail with a hint of elderflower, which is perfect for a summer evening in the garden.

Ingredients

60 ml (2 oz) calvados
15 ml (½ oz) elderflower liqueur
10 ml (⅓ oz) freshly squeezed lemon juice
120 ml (4 oz) tonic water
Orange peel for garnish

Directions

Mix the calvados, elderflower liqueur and lemon juice in the bottom of a highball glass.

Fill the glass with ice and top off with the tonic water.

Express the oils from a piece of orange peel and then garnish the glass with it.

Corpse Reviver No. 2

Corpse Reviver No. 2

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The Corpse Reviver #2, as described in the Savoy Cocktail Book, is the most commonly drunk of the corpse revivers, and consists of equal parts gin, lemon juice, curaçao (commonly Cointreau), Kina Lillet (now usually replaced with Cocchi Americano, as a closer match to Kina Lillet than modern Lillet Blanc), and a dash of absinthe.

This is the IBA offiical cocktail which uses Lillet Blanc.

Ingredients

30 ml (1 oz) London Dry Gin
30 ml Cointreau
30 ml Lillet Blanc
2 dashes absinthe
30 ml (1 oz) freshly squeezed lemon juice
Orange peel for garnish

Directions

Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice.

Add all ingredients and shake until well-chilled.

Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe.

Garnish with lemon peel.

Adonis

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The Adonis is a sherry and vermouth-based cocktail, with equal parts of both. The cocktail was created at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC in honor of the 1884 musical Adonis after the show reached the milestone of more than 500 shows on Broadway.

Ingredients

60 ml (2 oz) fino sherry
30 ml (1 oz) sweet vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters
Orange peel for garnish

Directions

Half-fill a mixing jug with ice.

Add all ingredients and stir until well-chilled.

Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a piece of orange peel.

Cosmopolitan (DeGroff)

Cosmopolitan (DeGroff)

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A variant of the original Cosmopolitan created by Dale DeGroff in the mid-90s, which has become the modern standard.

Ingredients

45 ml (1½ oz) citrus vodka
22.50 ml (¾ oz) Cointreau
7.50 ml (¼ oz) freshly squeezed lime juice
30 ml (1 oz) cranberry juice
lamed orange peel for garnish

Directions

Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice.

Add all ingredients and shake until well-chilled.

Strain into a cocktail coupe.

Garnish with a flamed orange peel.

French Connection

French Connection

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A cocktail of unknown origin, and one of several to bear the name French Connection This one gets its name through the use of two French grape based alcohols; cognac and Lillet Blanc.

Ingredients

30 ml (1 oz) cognac
30 ml (1 oz) LIlle Blanc
1 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1 dash orange bitters
15 ml (½ oz) honey syrup
Orange peel for garnish

Directions

Half-fill a mixing jug with ice.

Add all ingredients and stir until chilled.

Strain into a tumbler over fresh ice.

Garnish with a strip of orange peel.

19th

19th

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The 19threated by Manmohan Singh, India, PCO, New Delhi, India for the Bacardi Legacy Global Cocktail Competition 2014 where it was one of the eight finalists.

Ingredients

45 ml (1½ oz) white rum
10 ml (⅓ oz) white vermouth
20 ml (⅔ oz) white creme de cacao
20 ml (⅔ oz) freshly squeezed lemon juice
7.50 ml (¼ oz) absinthe

Directions

Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice.

Add the white rum, vermouth and creme de cacao to the shaker.

Add the freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Douse the sugar cube with absinthe and drop into the shaker,

Shake until well-chilled.

Strain into a cocktail couple and garnish with lemon and orange peel.