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Sweet for my sweetie...
May. 17th, 2013 07:55 amThey made it all look so glamorous, back in the Hollywood of the 30's and 40's. Astaire and Rogers dancing the night away, ball gowns and tails, sipping concoctions in martini glasses served to them by formally dressed waiters at elegantly appointed tables in spacious ball rooms.
Cocktails, whose colors were obscured by the black and white.
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ogam has made me curious again about some of those classic cocktails.
Let me start by saying we have a huge liquor cabinet. Name a spirit, and we probably have it. It's been acquired over to past couple of decades here and there and because neither drinks terribly much or often, it's accumulated. It's been as much to be able to offer stuff for guests. I myself really enjoy a good single malt, but it takes me the better part of a couple of years to finish a bottle of it.
James mentioned a cocktail called an "Aviation". Gin, creme de violette, maraschino liqueur, and lemon juice shaken over ice and strained. The color is a sky blue, just as it begins to darken to dusk. Quite pretty to look at, and as James had promised, quite delicious. The gin I had, an unopened bottle of Tanqueray gotten as a gift 3 or 4 years ago. Bevmo had the rest.
Night before, last I got out the ingredients and some measuring spoons, mixed up the cocktail and split the results into a couple of champagne flutes.
Mikey likes it. James did not lie.
Cocktails, whose colors were obscured by the black and white.
As I've posted before,
ogam has made me curious again about some of those classic cocktails.Let me start by saying we have a huge liquor cabinet. Name a spirit, and we probably have it. It's been acquired over to past couple of decades here and there and because neither drinks terribly much or often, it's accumulated. It's been as much to be able to offer stuff for guests. I myself really enjoy a good single malt, but it takes me the better part of a couple of years to finish a bottle of it.
James mentioned a cocktail called an "Aviation". Gin, creme de violette, maraschino liqueur, and lemon juice shaken over ice and strained. The color is a sky blue, just as it begins to darken to dusk. Quite pretty to look at, and as James had promised, quite delicious. The gin I had, an unopened bottle of Tanqueray gotten as a gift 3 or 4 years ago. Bevmo had the rest.
Night before, last I got out the ingredients and some measuring spoons, mixed up the cocktail and split the results into a couple of champagne flutes.
Mikey likes it. James did not lie.
