1 1/2 oz golden rum
1/2 oz lime juice
1 tsp cream
1 tsp grenadine
Shake with ice and strain into a pre-chilled cocktail glass. Ideally garnished with a rum soaked cherry. All of our limes have been tart lately so I added 2 extra tsp cream and 2 extra tsp grenadine and it was a wonderful cocktail. I could see this as a brunch cocktail, though it was fine in during happy hour.
From Playboy's Bar Guide 1971
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Great scans of this funky cocktail book, from 1972.
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Bar Keeper Silverlake
Website full of great barware, with an extensive vintage collection and absinthe gear for sale. Here are a few pieces that caught my eye.
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Little professor children's electronic quiz game turned into MP3 player.
remember it now?
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Cat Bishop "Recycling fine junk into so-so art"
Fantastic artwork made of recycled stuff. I'm seriously contemplating this piece for myself:
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Knitted spats make a comeback. Follow the link for pictures and commentary!
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Couldn't resist trying this cocktail when I flipped open my Playboy's Bar Guide from 1971.
1 1/2 oz Golden Rum
1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth
1/4 oz Orange Juice
1/4 oz Lime Juice
1 slice cocktail orange in syrup
Shake with ice and pour over rocks in a pre-chilled old-fashioned glass.
I've never run across a "cocktail orange in syrup," so I supose it means to soak an orange slice in simple syrup, which I did. I found this too tart at first, so I added a very tiny splash of simple syrup, squeezed my orange slice, and stirred a little more. That's when it became a very easy Golden Hour cocktail.
Cheers!
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Available as an option on 1956 Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge, and Plymouth models but quickly phased out due to the inevitable skipping problem and columbia records only agreement. Another pic and more details if you follow the link.
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Not how I prefer my cocktails made, but given the situation and the ingenuity, I had to pass this along. Three more shots at the flickr photoset.
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since I have a set of those pump dispensers.
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Busy at the Hukilau this weekend and forgot to post a Friday Cocktail. Here is my newest concoction. I made this up to use Chip's homebrewed Hibuscus Liqueure. This is similar to an old fashioned, hence Hawaiian Fashioned.
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Bathtub Gin is for drinking, not banjo and bathing.
The Hukilau 2007
Starting tomorrow night we'll be spending the weekend steeped in all things tiki!
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BTW, been super busy at work and home lately. Had a great visit from by brother and sister-in-law a few weeks back, then I was in Kansas City for a conference for a few days. Kansas City was very nice, clean, but very empty for a city. I'm guessing that it must be spread out, because I was downtown and had no trouble crossing streets anytime with or without the aid of traffic lights. Posting should be more regular next week.
I've been wanting to make some champagne cocktails for a while now and last night we cracked open a bottle to give it a go. The French 75 was by far my favorite and will be in the repetoir.
3/4 oz Gin (I've become partial to Plymouth's)
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Sugar Syrup
Champagne
Place Maraschino cherry in champagne flute. Mix first 3 ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into champagne flute and top with champagne.
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From "The Calvert Party Encyclopedia" page 33 (1960)
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2 oz. light rum
2 dashes grenadine
4 dashes lime juice (which I interpreted as about 1/2 a lime)
I shook this up in my Boston shaker that uses one of those vintage glasses that has recipes on the side as the glass half. As I strained the drink, I noticed that the recipe on the glass for the Bacardi cocktail is the same with 1/2 tsp of sugar and only one dash of grenadine (and presumably Bacardi rum). Either way a tasty treat.
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