Planning a happy hour at home and looking for some inspiration?
Here’s a snap–and transcription, below–of the paper placemats still used at Flor de Broadway at 3395 Broadway (currently closed), printed with 16 classic cocktail recipes.
Feel free to bookmark this page for all your retro cocktail-making needs over the coming weeks, and don't be afraid to play around with the recipes–think of them as general guidelines.
Recipe note: one jigger = 1½ ounces
Rum Cocktail
1 tsp sugar or a few dashes of grenadine
½ oz lemon or lime juice
1 jigger of rum
Shake with cracked ice and strain
Gin Rickey
Several cubes of ice
Juice and rind of ½ lime
1 jigger of gin
Fill glass with club soda
Manhattan
⅔ rye or bourbon whiskey
⅓ sweet vermouth
Dash of bitters
Stir with cracked ice and strain
Serve with cherry
Use dry vermouth if desired
Tom Collins
1 tsp sugar in juice of one lemon
1 jigger gin, ice
Fill with soda and stir
Rum Collins: use rum instead of gin
Alexander
½ oz fresh cream
¼ oz cream de cacao
1½ oz gin or brandy
Shake with cracked ice and strain
Planters Punch
1 tsp sugar
1 jigger Jamaica rum
1 oz lemon or lime
Shake with fine ice & pour unstrained in 10 oz glass
Add slice of orange, cherry
Daquiri
Juice of ½ lime or lemon
1 tsp powdered sugar
1½ oz light rum
Shake with cracked ice–when shaker frosts, strain
Martini
Ratio 3 to 1 to 10 to 1 dry vermouth & dry gin
Serve with green olive, twist of lemon peel
Gibson: serve with a pearl onion
Bloody Mary
1 jigger vodka
2 jiggers tomato juice
⅓ jigger lemon juice
Dash Worcestershire, salt and pepper
Shake with ice and strain
Whiskey Sour
Juice of ½ lemon
1 tsp powdered sugar
2 oz whiskey and top with orange slice
Sours can be made with gin, rum, and brandy
Cream de Cacao
⅔ oz creme de cacao
⅓ oz heavy cream, float cream on top in cordial glass
Pour cream on slightly tilted spoon held at level of liquor
Mint Julep
Several mint sprigs
1 tsp sugar
Dash water
Bourbon
Crush mint, sugar and water in 12 oz glass
Fill glass with ice and bourbon
Screwdriver
1 jigger vodka
Orange juice
Pour vodka and orange in 6 oz glass
Add ice and stir
Gin and Tonic
1½ jiggers of gin
Pour over ice cubes and fill with quinine water
Add slice of lemon or lime
Old Fashioned
1 lump of sugar saturated with bitters
A splash of soda
Muddle one slice of orange, lemon & cherry
Add rye, bourbon or scotch and ice
Dubonnet Cocktail
1¼ oz of Dubonnet
1 oz of gin
Stir with cracked ice, then strain and top off with lemon peel
