Classic Cocktail Recipes: The Rob Roy drink recipe using Scotch and Vermouth.

How to make the Rob Roy Cocktail drink.

This mixed drink is the Scotch whisky version of the Manhattan cocktail and is even referred to as a Scotch Manhattan at times. Named after Robert Roy MacGregor, who was the Scottish Robin Hood.
This drink can be served wet, dry or perfect.

Rob Roy Cocktail Drink

Rob Roy Recipes
Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 oz Scotch (Macallen, Glenlivet, Chivas, Macallan)
• 1/4 oz sweet vermouth (Can use sweet)
• Angostura bitters to taste
• A maraschino cherry for garnish

Preparation Instructions:
Mix ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Strain and pour into a cocktial glass.
Garnish with a cherry.

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Classic Cocktail Drinks: The Manhattan Recipe using Sweet Vermouth and Whiskey.

How to make the classic Manhattan cocktail drink, with information and recipe.

The Manhattan cocktail is one of the six basic classic cocktails. This is a old cocktail dating back to the 1870's. The drink originated in new York at the famous Manhattan Club, hence the name. The inventor of the Manhattan cocktail was Dr. Iain Marshall.

The Manhattan in Popular Culture
•  Dry Version of the Manhattan was made famous by Frank Sinatra and the famous Vegas "Rat Pack" (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. etc.)
• Manhattans and cosmos, were frequently drunk at trendy bars on the HBO series "Sex and the City".


Manhattan Recipe:
Ingredients
• 1 part Sweet Italian Vermouth (Martini and Rossi's, Cinzano, etc.)
• 5 parts whiskey (Normally made with Rye Whiskey, but can be made with Bourbon.)
• 1-2 dashes Angostura Bitters (Do not overdue!)

Procedure:
Stir, do not shake this one, all the ingredients is a cocktail glass with ice.
Strain the mix into another cocktail glass.
Garnish the Manhattan cocktail with a single maraschino cherry.

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Classic Cocktail Drinks: The "Mint Julep" Cocktail Recipe and History of this Vintage Cocktail.

Excellent recipe and information for the Mint Julep Cocktail drink.

The Mint Julep first appears in print in 1803. This drink is very popular in the Southern States and is the house drink at the Kentucky Derby. It is a great drink to cool off to during the hot summer months. The cocktail is made with four basic ingredients. Spearmint is the traditional mint used.  This drink is a close relation to the Mojito. The garnish of mint is a important part of the aroma of this drink. Traditionaly the Mint Julep was served in a silver glass with wide rims on which to hold the drink.

Mint Julep Recipe:
Ingredients
• 1 tablespoon of bar sugar syrup
• a dozen fresh mint leaves
• 2 or 3 dashes of angostura bitters.
• 2 oz. Bourbon Whiskey (Maker's Mark, Knob Creek, Jefferson Reserve, Woodford, Wild Turkey)

Mint Julep Procedure: 
To make this drink muddle to bruise the mint with a muddler stick in a mixing glass and do not crush the leaves.  Chill the drinking glasses in the frig, then fill with ice. Pour half over top of ice and then stir. Add more ice. Then top with the Bourbon. Garnish with mint leaves, which your can sugar.

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Classic Cocktail Drinks: The "Old-fashioned" Cocktail Recipe and History

How to make the Old Fashioned cocktail drink, with history.

The Old Fashioned is maybe one of the first drinks to actually be called a cocktail. The Old Fashioned bar glass is named after this mixed drink. The Old Fashioned cocktail is listed as top six in essential cocktails.  Many think this is what a classic cocktail should contain: a spirit, a sweet, a bitter, a sour and water.

We can trace the origins of this cocktail back to the 1880's. The first use of the name "Old Fashioned" was used at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen’s club located in Louisville, Kentucky. It was created by a bartender at the club.

The drink as many variations and evolutions, we will cover the most popular of the Old fashioned recipes in this article.

The Old Fashioned Cocktail Drink

Old Fashioned Recipe (Oldest 1895)

Ingredients:

• 1.5 ounce or a jigger 44 ml of Whiskey (Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, etc.)

• Sugar Cube

• Lemon Peel

• Angostura Bitters

Mixing Procedure:

1. Dissolve a lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass

2. Add two dashes Angostura bitters, 

3. Add a small piece ice

4. A piece lemon-peel

5. Add the jigger of whiskey. 

6. Mix the cocktail with a small bar-spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.

Old Fashioned Recipe (two)
Ingredients:
• 1 Sugar cube
• 2-3 Dashes of Angostura bitters
• 2 Orange slices
• 3 Ounce Bourbon Whiskey (Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, etc.)
• Maraschino cherry for garnish

Preparation:
Place the sugar cube at the bottom of an old-fashioned glass. Saturate the cube with the bitters. Add one orange slice. Muddle these ingredients. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Add the bourbon. Stir well. Garnish with a second orange slice and a maraschino cherry.

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Classic Cocktail Drinks: The "Sazerac" Mixed Drink Recipe and History.

How to make the classic Sazerac cocktail drink.

The Sazerac my be one of the oldest cocktails invented in America. The Sazerac cocktail was invented in the early part of the 1800's. The Sezerac first appeared in print in the 1930's. The inventor of this drink was Antoine Amedee Peychaud. He discovered the drink when he mixed Cognac with his eychaud bitters. The drink also used to use Absinthe. Absinthe was used until it became harder to find, then Herbsaint, Pernod or Absente was used. It was the house drink at the Sazerac Coffee House in New Orleans, where the Sazerac got it's proper name by John Schiller in 1859. They both got there names from a popular brand of cognac called Sazerac-de-Forge et Fils. Today it is not clear why but Rye Whiskey is used in place of the Cognac.

This is one of the true classics when it comes to cocktails and mixed drinks.

Sazerac cocktail drink

Sazerac Ingredients:
• 3 oz rye whiskey (Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, etc.) (Cognac for original recipe)
• 3/4 oz simple syrup (Sugar water or Bar syrup) or a sugar cube.
• 2-3 Dashes of Peychaud bitters
• absinthe (Herbsaint, Pernod or Absente)
• A lemon twist for garnish

Preparation:
Use a chilled glass. In another glass, muddle or mix the simple syrup and the Peychaud bitters.
Then mix the rye whiskey and the ice to the bitters mixture and stir.
Rinse the chilled glass with absinthe just enough to coat the glass.
Pour the whiskey mixture from the mixing glass into the old fashioned glass.
Squeeze the lemon over the cocktail.
Garnish with a lemon twist.

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