Variety and versatility are the two words which immediately pop into our minds whenever we think of mixed cocktail drinks. There is nothing like a glass of chilled cocktail served in a fancy cocktail glass or a masculine old-fashioned glass. Here are some of the most popular cocktail drinks you can try yourself to serve your guests.
Blue Blazer
Ingredients
2 oz. of Scotch whiskey 1 teaspoon of liquid honey 1 oz. + ½ oz. of boiling water 4 drops of lemon juice Lemon peel, for garnishing
Appliances
1 bar spoon 1 lighter 2 silver plated mugs 1 tray
Preparation Procedure
Fetch a silver plated mug which should have a handle for easy carriage. Hold the mug in one of your hands and then pour the water and the Scotch into it. Add the honey and the lemon juice to the water and Scotch mixture and then stir up the mixture with a bar spoon to thoroughly combine all the ingredients.
Once thoroughly mixed up, light up the mixture with a lighter and then immediately toss the mixture into another silver plated heat resistant mug. Toss the mixture 4-5 times without extinguishing the flame. Then place the mug aside and prepare the other mug by dropping a lemon peel into it. Once prepared, pour the burning drink into the prepared mug and then hold the other mug on top to extinguish the flame. Once done, serve the drink right away.
Brandy Eggnog
Ingredients
2 oz. of brandy ½ oz. of sugar syrup 3 oz. + 2/3rd oz. of milk A pinch of grated nutmeg ½ oz. of tawny port 1 oz. + 1/4th oz. of cream 1 large egg yolk
Appliances
1 bar strainer 1 shaker 1 jigger 1 highball glass
Preparation Procedure
Pop a highball glass into the refrigerator to chill it. Let the glass stay in the refrigerator until it is completely chilled. Once that happens, fill up a shaker with a few ice cubes and then pour the brandy, sugar syrup and the milk into it. Follow that by adding the tawny port and the cream. Finally, crack-open the egg and toss only the egg yolk into the shaker.
Once everything is added, shake the shaker 4-5 times to completely dissolve the egg yolk into the mixture and to combine all the added ingredients. Now take out the chilled glass from the refrigerator and place a bar strainer over it to strain the drink into the glass. Once strained, add a few ice cubes to the drink and then finally sprinkle a little grated nutmeg on top before serving.
Hi Ho Cocktail
Ingredients
2 oz. of Gin 4-5 dashes of orange bitters 1 lemon peel, for garnishing 1 oz. of White Port
Appliances
1 cocktail glass 1 strainer 1 cocktail shaker 1 peeler or twist knife Jigger
Preparation Procedure
Recipes For Mixed Cocktail Drinks
Pop a clean and dry cocktail glass into the freezer and let it stay there until it becomes chilled. In the meantime, measure out the White Port and Gin with the help of jiggers and then pour them into a cocktail shaker filled with a few ice cubes. Then add 4-5 dashes of orange bitters to the White Port and Gin mixture and then cover up the shaker.
Hold the shaker in your hand and shake it rapidly to mix all the ingredients. Then take out the chilled cocktail glass from the refrigerator and strain the drink into the glass. Finally, peel out a thin strip of lemon with the help of the twist knife and drop it into the cocktail glass to serve the Hi Ho cocktail.
Cocktail Princesa Sofia
Ingredients
2 oz. of Scotch Whisky ½ teaspoon of Grenadine 1 oz. of fresh orange juice ½ teaspoon of Triple Sec 1 fresh maraschino cherry with stem 1 oz. of Mandarins Liqueur
Appliances
1 cocktail shaker 1 citrus press 1 champagne glass 1 strainer Jigger
Preparation Procedure
Fetch a champagne glass and keep it in the refrigerator until it is chilled. In the meantime, take a fresh maraschino cherry and rinse it under water. Set aside the cherry and then take a fresh orange. Cut the orange in half and then put one of the halves into a citrus press to squeeze out the juice from it.
Then take a cocktail shaker and fill it up with a few ice cubes. After that, pour the Scotch whisky, Mandarins Liqueur, orange juice, Grenadine and the Triple Sec over the heap of ice cubes. Cover up the shaker tightly and then shake the shaker to thoroughly combine all the added ingredients. Once done, hold a bar strainer over the chilled champagne glass and strain the drink into it. Finally, drop the maraschino cherry into the glass to serve the wonderful drink.
Pink Gin
Ingredients
2 oz. of gin 1 twist of lime 4 dashes of bitters
Appliances
1 twist knife 1 cocktail glass
Preparation Procedure
Take a chilled cocktail glass and put 4 dashes of bitters in it. Rotate the glass to spread the bitters in it and to coat its walls with the bitters. Once evenly coated, turn the glass upside down to discard the excess bitters from the glass and then slowly pour the Gin into the glass. Serve the drink without adding any ice cubes.
Morning Glory
Ingredients
1 teaspoon of curacao Club soda or aerated drink 1 oz. of Cognac 1 teaspoon of absinthe Lemon twist, for garnishing 1 oz. of rye whiskey 2-3 dashes of Angostura bitters 1 teaspoon of sugar syrup Ice cubes
Appliances
1 cocktail shaker 1 old-fashioned glass 1 strainer 1 twist knife
Preparation Procedure
Insert an old-fashioned glass into the freezer to chill it. While the glass is sitting in the freezer, drop a few ice cubes into a cocktail shaker and then slowly pour the cognac, rye whiskey and the simple syrup over the ice cubes. Add 2-3 dashes of Angostura bitters and then follow that by adding the curacao and the absinthe.
Shake the mixture until well combined and then strain it into the chilled old-fashioned glass. Finally, pour the club soda on top to fill up the glass and then serve it with a twist of lemon.