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.