The Cocktails Must Flow

We’ve done quite a few dessert cocktails now, but this one is by far my favourite. The Golden Dream is shaken and served straight up, without ice.

The drink should be quite fluffy in texture. I don’t usually make this one following the IBA ingredients, which we have used in the recipe, but use 35ml each of the first three ingredients and 25 of the cream. This is simply because, until recently, the only small measures I had were of those sizes. I’ve recently bought a measuring glass which goes from 5ml to 30ml making it easier to get the measures right.

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The Kamikaze is one of the cocktails created in the 60s or 70s in the American cocktail scene using vodka for its fabled lack of flavour.

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Thought to have been created by ‘Professor’ Jerry Thomas in 1860 to commemorate the first Japanese mission to the USA.

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A Japanese slipper is a drink made from Midori, Cointreau, and lemon juice. It was created in 1984 by Jean-Paul Bourguignon at Mietta’s Restaurant in Melbourne.

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An easy-to-make whiskey sour using Jack Daniel’s Gentleman Jack Tennessee Whiskey.

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To help you join in with the upcoming #FridayNightCocktails on the 6^th May, we’ve compiled the ingredient list in two formats:

• Separate ingredient lists for the four cocktails we’ll be making, but without quantities or the cocktail names.
• Combined the ingredients into an alphabetical list so as to not “give the game away”.

We’ve hidden the two lists behind toggles so you can choose which list you want to use; this is a new method and we’d appreciate feedback on how well you think it works.

There can be quite a few spirits used each time we do a Friday night cocktails, but the same spirits are generally used over and over again. Strong spirits like whiskey, gin, vodka and so on will last months to a year or two once opened (how long will depend on how often the bottle is opened).

A simple cocktail combining a London dry gin with Dubonnet red.

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With a warmer spring hopefully on the way (although apparently not according to the forecast), we thought we’d include refreshing gin and lemonade cocktail. Best made with a good quality London Dry Gin and San Pellegrino Limonata.

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An old-fashioned was one of the simpler and earlier versions of cocktails, before the development of advanced bartending techniques and recipes in the later part of the 19th century.

The old fashioned is the cocktail of choice of Don Draper, the lead character on the Mad Men television series, set in the 1960s.[20] The use of the drink in the series coincided with a renewed interest in this and other classic cocktails in the 2000s.

It was also the basis of an oft-quoted line from the movie It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, when boozy pilot Jim Backus decides to make the cocktail and leaves passenger Buddy Hackett to fly the plane. When Rooney asks, “What if something happens?”, Backus replies, “What could happen to an old-fashioned?” This scene is satirized in Archer season 3 episode 1 (“Heart of Archness”) when Sterling Archer attempts to make an old fashioned on Rip Riley’s seaplane but lacks the basic ingredients.

The Orgasm is another cocktail with a dollop of innuendo; a smaller version of the Screaming Orgasm

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