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incarnation at some point have invented it in 1921. Since name, or if it was first mixed in
between the ’70s and ’80s. Its then, bartenders have been 1948 for singer Peggy Lee, whose
prominence in Sex and the City adding various other spices and Spanish name was Margarita.
made it very popular with young flavourings to this recipe, and it There is also a story about it being
women, and the drink has been a has become a popular drink to created earlier in San Diego.
marketing magnet for cranberry have with brunch. In the 1960s and ’70s, cocktails
juice company Ocean Spray as BRANDY became less popular, but made
well as liquor brands Absolut a comeback by the ’80s. By the
Citron and Cointreau. SIDECAR (1922) turn of the century, traditional
cocktails started to be appreciated
RUM Brandy was known to be the again, taking their place next to
their modern counterparts on bar
best spirit to ward off a chill,
MAI TAI (1933) traditionally served as an after- menus all over the world.
There is confusion as to the dinner drink. The story goes
origins of the Mai Tai. The name that an American captain once
may be Polynesian, but it’s very walked into a Paris bar, asking for BARTENDER’S
much an American drink. No one something to warm him up. The TERMINOLOGY
knows whether it was Trader Vic bartender decided that brandy on
or his friendly rival Don Beach its own was inappropriate before NEAT
who created it at one of their dinner, so he added Cointreau Served without ice in an
Polynesian-style restaurants in and lime juice, effectively unmixed liquid,
California right after World War creating the famous Sidecar. It e.g. whisky neat.
II. The tropical and fruity flavours was soon popular in England and
come from white rum, pineapple France, but fell out of fashion
juice, orange juice and lime juice, by the 1970s. It is now making a CHASER
but each of their versions were comeback in contemporary bars. A milder drink that follows
different from the other. Since TEQUILA a shot of hard liquor,
the 1960s, the Mai Tai has been e.g. tequila with a chaser.
a prominent feature in Tiki bars,
but is also popular elsewhere. MAGARITA (1938) ON THE ROCKS
It’s generally accepted that the
BLOODY MARY (1921) Margarita was first created in Served with ice cubes.
Possibly the most complex Mexico, and the recipe soon
cocktail, the Bloody Mary started travelled to Texas, and eventually STRAIGHT UP
off as a simple mixture of vodka to Hollywood. Around the time Drinks mixed with ice but
and tomato juice, mixed by the of Prohibition, Americans would taken out when served.
actor George Jessel to cure a travel across the border to obtain
bad hangover. Fernand Petiot, a spirits, and tequila was the most FROZEN
bartender at the St. Regis hotel common one to be found. It’s not
in New York, later added salt, known whether a bartender in Served with crushed ice,
pepper, Worcestershire sauce Mexico created the Margarita in e.g. Frozen Margarita
and lemon juice and claimed to 1941 for a customer by the same

CLASSIC COCKTAIL TIMELINE *

AND THEIR RECIPES

OLD FASHIONED (1806) SAZERAC (1850) MANHATTAN (1870) WHISKY SOUR (1870)
45ml bourbon or rye whiskey, 2 50ml cognac, 10ml Absinthe, 1 sugar 50ml rye whiskey, 45ml bourbon whiskey,
dashes Angostura bitters, 1 sugar cube, cube, two dashes Peychaud’s Bitters 20ml sweet red vermouth, 30ml fresh lemon juice, 15ml Gomme
few dashes plain water Rinse a chilled glass with Absinthe, a dash of Angostura bitters syrup, egg white (optional)
Place sugar cube in old fashioned add crushed ice, and set it aside. Stir all ingredients over Shake all ingredients with
glass and saturate with bitters, add Stir the remaining ingredients over ice, strain into a chilled ice. Strain into chilled glass, garnish
a dash of plain water. Muddle until ice and set it aside. Discard the ice rock glass and garnish with an orange slice and cherry.
dissolved. Fill the glass with ice and Absinthe from the prepared with a lemon twist. If with egg white, shake
cubes and add whiskey. Garnish with glass, strain the drink into a rock ingredients without ice until
orange twist and a cocktail cherry. glass. Garnish with lemon peel.
no more swishing sound and then
add ice to shake again.

28 *This is not the complete list of classic cocktails.

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