So I figured it was time to revisit Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, to continue the cocktail journey through the ages.
Flipping through the pages, I was initially drawn to the Corpse Reviver #2 (feeling a little logey tonight and all!), but I figured I would rather try one of the cocktails I’ve never [...]
Another evening with falernum needing to be used up … another colonial cocktail from Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails! I think I’m up to number 6 or so of these that I’ve documented here or on Flickr.
I still have about 250 ml of homemade falernum to use up, and have been trying it in as [...]
Its more than enough time since the last cocktail from Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails and while I’m not strictly going in alphabetical order, I am moving roughly from the front to the back.
So tonight’s Dr. Cocktail Bingo landed on The Blackthorn Cocktail! This one is a gin-based cocktail of few ingredients. Its on the [...]
Time for another cocktail from Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails!
Ive been eyeing this one for a bit, thinking it would be a fun one to try, just for the historical kicks, if nothing else. I can just imaging all the New York party set heading out on their private boats for a bit of imbibing [...]
In the quest to work my way through Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, here’s #2! I hadn’t planned to make one of these cocktails today, BUT after getting home from grocery shopping, @fourchickens on twitter (and an awesome gluten-free blogger put out a call for a #twittercocktailparty.
Well, what’s a gal to do but [...]
So here we are in the stretch between Xmas and New Year’s where the days are lazy and the eating is good! After a day of not much activity other than setting up the New PVR and walking the resident Shiba Inus, we kind of felt like curry tonight.
Our usual curry is a stew-like concoction, [...]
