Ultra Cocktail Hints
Cocktails are usually served as appetizers or aperitifs, before a meal. Such cocktails should therefore be tart or "dry" to stimulate appetite. Any cocktail recipe can be modified to suit your taste and that of your guests. Most cocktails are at their best ice cold: they should be shaken vigorously with ice cubes (cracked or shaved ice is even better) and served promptly in thin, clean, stemmed glasses. Chilled glasses are an added refinement. Vodka may be substituted for gin in any recipe. Cocktails should not be made in advance if you can help yourself. If all your ingredients are lined up beforehand, the actual making is a very quick - and pleasantly social - process.
Pony - 1 ounceJigger - 1 1/2 ounces
Cocktail glass - 2 to 31/2 ounces
Highball glass - 8 ounces
Collins glass - 10 to 12 ounces
Zombie glass - 12 ounces or more
A pint - 16 ounces
A fifth - 25.6 ounces
A quart - 32 ounces
It is better to serve a fine tall drink or cocktail in the wrong glass than a poor one in the right one. It is best to have both drink and glass just right.
Most cocktails should be served in the regular cocktail glass, with a stem, and holding 3 ounces. The stem helps the drink stay cold, and minimizes sweating on the glass.
The Old Fashioned requires its own type of glass, a stubby tumbler, and the Champagne Cocktail is best in a champagne glass.
Cuba Libre
Squeeze juice of 1/2 lime into a tall glassDrop in lime shell
Add 3 cubes of ice, 2 ounces of light rum
Fill glass with cola
Serve with decorative swizzle stick
Stinger
2 parts Brandy1 part White or Green Creme de Menthe
This may be served as a cocktail or
poured over shaved ice as a frappe
Use a short straw
The Highball
1 1/2 ounces of liquor(it can be made with scotch, rye, burbon, rum or brandy)
2 big cubes of ice
Club soda, ginger ale, or other carbonated water
Serve in a tall 8 ounce glass
Blue Hawaii
1 ounce Dark rum1 ounce Light rum
1/2 ounce Blue Curacao
Pineapple juice
Pour both jiggers of rum and Curacao over cubed ice in a tall glass
Finish filling the glass with pineapple juice
Stir until blue is uniform
Garnish with a slice of fresh pineapple, maraschino cherry
and a tropical umbrella holding them together
Zombie
1 ounce lime juice3/4 ounce Papaya juice
1 teaspoon sugar
1 ounce Jamaica rum
2 ounces Gold Label rum
1 ounce White Label rum
2 teaspoons Apricot brandy
Shake well with plenty of ice
Pour unstrained into a big zombie glass
Float a splash of extra-high-proof heavy bodied rum on top
Spike on a toothpick, in the order named:
1 green cherry
1/2 inch pineapple stick
1 red cherry
Decorate with this and a sprig of mint
Sprinkle powdered sugar over all and serve
In size, appearance, and power the Zombie is King of All Drinks!
