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Cafe Prego

Category: Hot Drinks

 

1 1/2    oz.        Amaretto

1/2       oz.        Brandy

                        Coffee (to fill)

2          oz.        Heavy Cream

 

Pour the Amaretto and brandy into an Irish coffee cup, and add coffee until the glass is just about 3/4 full.  Float the cream on top of the coffee by pouring it slowly over the back of a spoon whose tip is just touching the drink's surface.

 

Tips:  Add a dollop of whipped cream, for added sin.

 

 

California Lemonade

Category: Novelty Drinks

 

1 1/2    oz.        Whiskey or Rye

1          oz.        Lemon Juice

1          oz.        Lime Juice

1          tbsp.     Powdered Sugar

1          dash     Grenadine

                        Club Soda (to fill)

 

Shake the rye, juices, sugar and grenadine with ice until the sugar is dissolved.  Strain, fill with soda water, and serve.

 

Tips:  If you like this drink, try mixing a Pink Lemonade.

 

 

Canadian Fred

3          oz.        Canadian Whiskey

3/4       oz.        Lemon Juice

                        Cola (to fill)

                        Lemon Slice

 

Pour the whiskey and lemon juice into an ice-filled highball glass and stir well.  Fill with cola and top with the lemon slice before serving.

 

 

Cape Cod Breeze

Category: Non-alcoholic Drinks

 

3          oz.        White Grape Juice

3          oz.        Cranberry Juice

                        Lemon Twist or Slice

 

Fill a tall glass with ice, and pour in the juices.  Garnish with the lemon before serving.

 

 

Cape Codder

1 1/2    oz.        Vodka

6          oz.        Cranberry Juice

                        Lime Wedge

 

Fill a highball glass with ice, then pour in the vodka and cranberry juice.  Stir, garnish with the lime wedge, and serve.

 

Variations:  Substitute Southern Comfort for the vodka, and you've poured a Scarlett O'Hara.

 

Tip:  If you find this drink's too tart, try adding a bit of sugar syrup.

 

 

Carrol

Category: Manhattan Variations

 

2          oz.        Brandy

1          oz.        Sweet Vermouth

                        Maraschino Cherry

 

Pour into an ice-filled mixing glass and stir well.  Then strain into a chilled cocktail glass or martini glass and garnish with the cherry, before serving.

 

 

Casablanca

2          oz.        White Rum

2          tsp.       Cherry Liqueur

2          tsp.       Triple Sec

2          tsp.       Lime Juice

 

Shake the ingredients together with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.  Serve immediately.

 

 

Champagne Cocktail

Category: Champagne Drinks

 

1                      Sugar Cube(s)

2          dashes  Bitters

                        Lemon Twist

                        Champagne (to fill)

 

Place the sugar cube in the bottom of a chilled champagne glass, and sprinkle the bitters onto it.  Twist the lemon peel and add it, then fill with champagne and serve.

 

 

Champagne Fizz

Category: Champagne Drinks

 

1          oz.        Orange Juice

                        Champagne (to fill)

 

Fill a highball glass half full with ice.  Add the orange juice, top with iced champagne and serve.

 

Variations:  Serve this drink in a champagne glass with ice, and you've got a Mimosa.

 

 

Champagne Julep

Category: Champagne Drinks

Category: Juleps

 

6          whole   Mint Leaves

1          tsp.       Sugar Syrup

3          oz.        Bourbon

                        Champagne (to fill)

 

Place the mint leaves and sugar syrup in a tall collins glass, and crush together.  Fill the glass with ice, pour in the bourbon, and stir until chilled.  Top off with chilled champagne, stir gently, and garnish with a fresh mint sprig.

 

 

Chi Chi

Category: Tropical Drinks

 

1 1/2    oz.        Vodka

2          oz.        Pineapple Juice

1          oz.        Coconut Cream

                        Maraschino Cherry

 

Shake or blend together with ice, and strain into a chilled champagne glass. Garnish with the cherry and serve.

 

Variations:  Served over crushed ice, and as long as you can ignore the fact that "chi chi" is Spanish slang for a woman's breast, this is a delightful summer cocktail.  To jazz it up even further, add an intensely flavored liqueur, such as Chambord, Galliano or Kahlua by substituting equal parts liqueur for pineapple juice (up to 1 ounce).

 

 

Chicago Cocktail

Category: Champagne Drinks

 

1 1/2    oz.        Brandy

1          dash     Bitters

1          dash     Curacao

                        Champagne (to fill)

 

Stir the brandy, bitters and curacao with ice and strain into a champagne glass.  Fill with iced champagne and serve.

 

Tips:  Sugar the rim of the glass, for added panache.  To do this, use a lemon wedge to moisten the rim, then dip into a small plateful of granulated or superfine sugar.

 

 

Cincinnati

Category: Coolers

 

                        Beer

                        Club Soda

 

Fill a highball glass half full of beer.  Top with well-chilled soda and serve.

 

 

Clamdigger

2          oz.        Vodka

4          oz.        Tomato Juice

2          oz.        Clam Juice

1          tsp.       Lemon Juice

                        Tabasco Sauce

                        Worcestershire Sauce

                        Salt and Pepper

                        Lime Slice

 

Pour the vodka and mixers into an ice-filled highball glass and stir.  Add Tabasco, Worcestershire, salt and pepper to taste, then garnish with the lime slice before serving.

 

Variations:  Try substituting V-8 for the tomato juice, for an even livelier drink.

 

 

Claridge

Category: Martini Variations

 

1          oz.        Gin

3/4       oz.        Apricot Brandy

3/4       oz.        Dry Vermouth

                        Maraschino Cherry

 

Stir the ingredients together in a mixing glass, and strain into a chilled cocktail or martini glass.  Garnish with the cherry and serve.

 

Variations:  Mixing to impress?  Try adding 1/2 ounce of Cointreau, for an even more sophisticated drink.

 

 

Coffee Keoke

Category: Hot Drinks

 

1          oz.        Coffee Liqueur

1          oz.        Brandy

                        Hot Coffee (to fill)

                        Whipped Cream (preferably

                              fresh)

 

Pour the liquors into an Irish coffee glass, and add enough coffee to fill to about 1" from the rim.  Top with a healthy layer of whipped cream and serve.

 

Trivia:  This drink is famous for being invented in the city that's home to so many fine cocktails:  San Francisco.  Patrons of the Clift Hotel can still drink soul-warming Keoke Coffees as they watch the evening fog roll in.

 

 

Colonial

1 1/2    oz.        Gin

3/4       oz.        Grapefruit Juice

                        Maraschino Cherry

 

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled rocks glass.  Then add the cherry before serving.

 

 

Cool Blue Wave

Category: Coolers

 

1 1/2    oz.        White Rum

1 1/2    oz.        Blue Curacao

3/4       oz.        Lime Juice

                        Club Soda (to fill)

                        Lime Slice

 

Shake or blend the rum, curacao and lime juice with ice.  Strain into an ice-filled highball glass and top off with soda.  Garnish with the lime slice and serve.

 

 

Cooperstown

Category: Martini Variations

 

1 1/2    oz.        Gin

3/4       oz.        Sweet Vermouth

3/4       oz.        Dry Vermouth

1          sprig     Fresh Mint

                        Maraschino Cherry

 

Stir the gin, vermouths and mint together with ice, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.  Then add the cherry before serving.

 

 

Copperhead

Category: Highballs

 

1 1/2    oz.        Vodka

                        Ginger Ale (to fill)

 

Pour the vodka into an ice-filled highball glass, top off with ginger ale and serve.

 

 

Cowboy

Category: Cream Drinks

 

3          oz.        Whiskey

1 1/2    oz.        Half & Half

 

Shake or blend with ice and strain into a rocks glass.

 

 

Crown Cocktail

1 1/2    oz.        Whiskey

3/4       oz.        Lemon Juice

1          dash     Grenadine

                        Maraschino Cherry

 

Pour into an ice-filled mixing glass and stir well.  Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with the cherry before serving.

 

 

Cuba Libre

1 1/2    oz.        White Rum

6          oz.        Cola

                        Lime Wedge

 

Pour the rum and cola into an ice-filled highball glass and stir well.  Garnish with the lime wedge before serving.

 

Variations:  Try using dark or spiced rum for an even more flavorful version.  Lemons are also commonly used to garnish the drink, especially in bars that are used to serving 'Rum and Coke' instead of 'Cuba Libre'.

 

Trivia:  According to legend, this drink began as an ad hoc creation by American soldiers fighting in Cuba during the Spanish American war.  They mixed their Coca Cola with local rum, added a lime, and named the drink in honor of Cuban liberation.

 

 

Cuban Coffee

1          oz.        Dark Rum

1/2       oz.        Creme de Cacao (either white

                             or dark)

1          tsp.       Sugar

                        Coffee (to fill)

                        Whipped Cream

 

Pour the liquors into a coffee cup.  Add the sugar and stir until dissolved.  Top off with hot coffee and whipped cream, and serve immediately.

 

Tips:  Brew strong Cuban coffee, or substitute espresso, for a particularly macho drink.

 

 

Cuban Manhattan

Category: Manhattan Variations

 

1 1/2    oz.        White Rum

1/4       oz.        Sweet Vermouth

1/4       oz.        Dry Vermouth

1          dash     Bitters

                        Maraschino Cherry

 

Pour into an ice-filled mixing glass and stir well.  Strain into a chilled cocktail or martini glass, garnish with the cherry, and serve.

 

Tips:  Like any drink in the Martini and Manhattan families, the proportions of vermouth can be modified to please your particular taste.