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Favorite Drinks Recipes to make
Favorite Drinks Recipes to make
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Ingredients: 4 parts gin (or vodka); 1 part DRY vermouth
Stir with cracked ice; strain into glass. Add green olive or
a twist of lemon peel. Change your name to "James"
Drink: Manhattan
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Bourbon (or rye); 1/2 oz. sweet
vermouth; Dash of Angostura bitters (optional)
Stir with cracked ice and strain into glass. Add a cherry.
Voila.
Drink: Sour
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Bourbon (or rye); 3/4 oz. fresh lemmon
juice; 1 teaspoon sugar
Shake with cracked ice; strain into glass. Add orange slice on
rim of glass and a cherry. Pucker up.
Drink: Bloody Mary
Ingredients: 3 oz. tomato juice; 1/2 oz. lemon juice; Dash of
Worchestershire sauce; 1 1/2 oz. vodka
Add salt and pepper to taste. Shake with cracked ice; strain
into six oz. glass. Don't let the bed bugs bite.
Drink: Gimlet
Ingredients: 4 parts gin (or vodka); 1 part sweetened lime
juice
Shake with cracked ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Serve
with small slice of fresh lime. Down the hatch.
Drink: Daiquiri
Ingredients: Juice from 1/2 lime or 1/4 lemon; 1 teaspon sugar;
1 1/2 oz. light rum
Shake thoroughly with cracked ice, until the shaker frosts.
Strain into cocktail glass. Delicious.
Drink: Whiskey Collins
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Whiskey; Juice of 1/4 lime; 7-up
Mix whiskey and lime juice in a tall glass. Add ice cubes; fill
with 7-up. Best tasting Collins of all.
Drink: Old-fashioned
Ingredients: Dash of Angostura bitters; 1/2 teaspoon sugar;
1/2 oz. sparkling water; 1 1/2 oz. whiskey
Stir bitters, sugar, and water in glass; add ice cubes, and
whiskey. Add twist of lemon peel, orange slice, and cherry.
Superb!
Drink: Margarita
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Tequila; 1/2 oz. Triple Sec; 1 oz.
fresh lime or lemon juice
Moisten cocktail glass with fruit rind; spin rim in salt. Shake
ingredients with cracked ice. Strain into glass. Sip over rim.
Ole!
Drink: Screwdriver
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Vodka; orange juice
Put ice cubes in six-oz. glass. Add vodka; fill with orange
juice; stir.
Drink: Bacardi
Ingredients: Juice of 1/2 lime (or lemon); 1/2 teaspon sugar;
one teaspoon grenadine; 1 1/2 oz. Bacardi rum
Shake well with cracked ice and strain into cocktail glass. Yum.
Drink: Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients: 2-3 dashes grenadine; orange juice; 1 1/2 oz.
of Tequila
Put grenadine into eight-oz. glass. Fill with ice cubes. Add
tequila. Fill with orange juice. DO NOT STIR. Chug it down.
Drink: Whiskey Wallbanger
Ingredients: 1 oz. Whiskey; 1/2 oz. Liquore Gilliano; Orange
juice
Fill tall glass with ice cubes. Add liquors. Fill with orange
juice; stir. Delicious, fabulously smooth
Drink: Gin 'n Tonic
Ingredients: Juice and rind of 1/4 lime; 1 1/2 oz gin; tonic
water (Schweppes is reccommended)
Squeeze lime over ice cubes in tall glass and add rind. Pour in
gin; fill with tonic and stir.
Drink: Sombrero
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. coffee liquer; chilled milk
Fill eight-oz. glass with ice cubes. Add liquer; fill with milk;
stir. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Drink: Stinger
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. brandy; 3/4 oz. white creme de menthe
Shake with cracked ice; strain into glass. A real humdinger.
Drink: Pina Colada
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. rum; 1 oz. cream of coconut; 2 oz.
Pineapple juice
Shake with 1/2 cup crushed ice (use a blender). Pour into a tall
glass filled with ice cubes. Add a chery. Tastes good!
Drink: Rob Roy
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. Scotch; 3/4 oz. sweet vermouth; dash of
Angostura bitters
Stir with cracked ice; strain into cocktail glass. Add a twist
of lemon peel. This drink is often called a "Scotch Manhattan".
Drink: Black Russian
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. vodka; 3/4 oz. coffee liquer
Shake with cracked ice; strain over ice cubes in a prechilled
short glass (slightly larger than a teacup). Drink up, Comrade!
Drink: Scarlett O'Harra
Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz whiskey; juice of 1/4 lime; 1 1/2 oz.
cranberry juice cocktain (Ocean Spray)
Shake with cracked ice; strain into a glass. As enticing as it's
namesake!