#257 Cocktail: Scofflaw

   According to Michael B. Quinion, publisher of www.worldwidewords.org, the word "scofflaw" came after the sum of 200 dollars was offered,in 1923, with whoever came up with the best word to describe "a lawless drinker of illegality made or illegally obtain liquor".
   The prize money was donated by a rich Prohibitionist who wanted to "stab awake the conscience" of those who drank alcohol during Prohibition
    The following year was reported in the Chicago Tribune that "Jock", a bartender at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, had created the Scofflaw Cocktail.

2 ounces bourbon or rye whiskey

1 ounce dry vermouth

1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

1/4 ounce Grenadine

Angostura orange bitters to taste

#156 Cocktail: Hurricane

      Even if the summer is gone, that doesn't mean that we should stick to the hot tea or toddies. The Hurricane, as you may see, is a tropical, summer cocktail, a mix of several juices and rum, which makes it extremely delicious.
       The creation of this passion fruit–colored relative of a daiquiri is credited to New Orleans tavern owner Pat O'Brien. The bar allegedly started as a speakeasy called Mr. O'Brien's Club Tipperary and the password was "storm's brewin'."
      In the 1940s, he needed to create a new drink to help him get rid of all of the less-popular rum that local distributors forced him to buy before he could get a few cases of more popular liquors such as scotch and other whiskeys. He poured the concoction into hurricane lamp–shaped glasses and gave it away to sailors.
      The drink caught on, and it has been a mainstay in the French Quarter ever since. It is more commonly served in a disposable plastic cup, as New Orleans laws permit
drinking in public and leaving a bar with a drink, but they prohibit public drinking from glass containers.

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1 1/2 ounce light rum

1 1/2 ounce dark rum

1 ounce fresh orange juice

1 ounce fresh lemon juice

1/2 ounce simple syrup

2 ounce passion fruit

grenadine to taste

       

#119 Cocktail: El Floridita No.2

    As you may already notice, this is just a twist of the original El Floridita, that is called .....No.1 (obviously).
" The "Floridita" Cocktail gets its name from the Floridita bar in Cuba. If you glance through various cocktail books, you will most likely find a variety of different drinks that go by this name, I'm not sure which one should be considered the original version, but this particular one I find to be quite delightful. You'll also learn about how to make homemade Grenadine in the process. (And as to the name of this drink using the masculine "El" instead of the feminine "La"... I've been told that while the establishment takes the feminine name of "Floridita", in Spanish the bar itself is masculine, and thus "El" should be used. At least that's what I've been told.)"

- Robert Hess, Cocktilian

1 1/2 ounce Light Rum

1/2 ounce sweet vermouth

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

grenadine to taste

creme de cacao to taste (go easy)

#115 Cocktail: El Presidente

   Well, after almost 3 weeks of pause, due to the moving in another city and some problems with the internet connection, I am back with another cocktail from the Gaz Regan's great book.
    The El Presidente that I made here and that you can find it in the book is not actually the original recipe from 1920', but a deviation from that which in the same time is a twist of the daiquiri.
     The El Presidente earned its acclaim in Havana, Cuba during the 1920s through the 1940s during the American Prohibition. The cocktail was named in honor of President Gerardo Machado and quickly became the preferred drink of the Cuban upper class.
     This recipe, in my opinion, is better than the original one, using pineapple and lime juice instead of orange curacao and vermouth.

2 ounces light rum

1/2 ounce pineapple juice

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

 a dash of grenadine

#113 Cocktail: English Rose

   The cocktail is adapted from a recipe in the first edition of "Old Mr. Boston" (1935) cocktail book
   The "Mr. Boston" name is known not only for its brands of distilled spirits, but also for its unique reference book, (Old) Mr. Boston Official Bartender's Guide, used by both professional and home bartenders as the "Bible of Booze." The Guide was first published 1935, according to the first date published in the Guide's publisher information page, the early days after the Repeal of Prohibition, when the distillery started up business again.

     The name of the cocktail comes for the twist that made this drink. The original cocktail is named "Rose" and it contains dry vermouth, apricot liqueur, fresh lemon juice and grenadine. By adding gin to the whole composition, this drink becomes the English Rose, because when you say gin, you immediately think of the Brits.

1 1/2 ounce Gin

3/4 ounce dry vermouth

3/4 ounce apricot liqueur 

1/4 fresh lemon juice

grenadine to taste

  

#40 Cocktail: Bacardi Cocktail

       The cuban Daiquiri became known as the Bacardi Cocktail, especially in the USA. This variant, which became established later on, featured a dash of Grenadine, lending it a different colour to its Daiquiri competitors which used other brands of rum. This cocktail is the first example of a copyright protected recipe. After Prohibition ended, many bars on the American mainland began serving Bacardi Cocktails without the original ingredient. One of these establishments was the Barbizon Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, which was thereupon sued by the Bacardi company. In 1936 the New York Supreme Court ruled that a Bacardi cocktail must contain Bacardi Rum.

   According to a story in the Washington Post in 1937, at the end of Prohibition, the Bacardi Cocktail began to unseat the Martini as the most favored cocktail, something most thought could never happen.

    Combining Bacardi rum, lime and Grenadine in a cocktail shaker with ice and shaking until cold seems a precursor to today’s Cosmopolitan…pink, both sweet and tart and certainly trendy.

2 ounces Bacardi Rum

1 ounce lime juice

1/2 ounce grenadine