Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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On the way to ten…
B & I are actually mid cocktail right now (a Blackthorn to be specific). We’ve begun discussing our ten greatest cocktails of all times. There are a lot of tipplings, that when confronted with, you wouldn’t object to drinking. What…
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French 75
The French 75 has bcome something of a New Year’s Day tradition for B & me. Sadly, it is something of a leftover drink for us. As it requires sparkling wine, I just don’t seem to ever open up a…
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On naming a cocktail
B likes grapefruit juice, so I am always on the lookout for a good grapefruit juice based cocktail (see our last post on The Blinker). So when I got a Twitter feed to a Facebook link for a cocktail called…
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The Blinker
This is one B and I have been making since we found it in our copy of the original edition of Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. On a Christmas aside, we just got a copy of the new…
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The Sazerac
This cocktail has a lot of things I like. It’s old. It has Rye, absinthe and screwball ingredients (Peychaud’s bitters). Oh, and it’s a good cocktail. According to David Wondrich in Esquire Drinks, the cocktail takes it’s name from the…
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Drinking advice for the undead
First let me say it again. I love absinthe. The real stuff. This cocktail comes from a whole family that dates back to the late 19th century. Credit for this particular version, according to Ted “Dr. Cocktail” Haigh’s Vintage Spirits…
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The Aviation Cocktail
I’ve been thinking about his one for a while. It started out as something to do with a recently acquired bottle of creme de violette, which in turn was the result of my endless quest for arcane booze. In many…
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The Pink Lady
This is another one we found in Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. In it, he points out that you can go into any bar and, if you dare, order one, and you will never get the right thing…
Brenda & M
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Hi there! We are Brenda and M, scientists by day and a knitter/piano player/gardener and a tinker/putterer/cook and bartender in a parallel universe. This blog was born out of Brenda’s earlier blog MolecularKnitting and in interest in really cool vintage cocktails.
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