Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail
It’s gotten warm here and our lime tree had a couple of limes ready for picking (yah, this is a really good place to start hating us. Especially if your car is still buried under six inches of snow. and…
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Spring Is in the Air
Spring is here. The plum tree is in bloom–okay, it’s the first year. And when I say in bloom, I mean “It has a bloom”. Even the doves are getting frisky. What the first warm days of spring require is…
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Orange Season
It’s currently orange season here in California, and our orange tree has been fruitful. This poses a bit of a challenge as orange juice is not an easy juice to make cocktails with. It tends to be too sweet and…
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An autumnal tipple and a bonus…
B was in the mood for something “autumnal” when she ran across this little concoction on the Imbibe website. They found the Sinsear, the brainchild of Yvette Leeper-Bueno, owner of Vinatería in Harlem, in the Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook. Curiously,…
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The Millionaire #4
As the title intimates, this isn’t a simple story. B found the version of which we partook tonight in Ted Haigh‘s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. He reprises his from a 1937 version. This, of course, sent me down the…
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Americano
The last throws of summer have been unrelentingly hot here, leading us to want something more on the light and refreshing side for our afternoon imbibing. We have don’t a number of spritzes already, including the the Venetian Spritz, the …
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The Journalist Cocktail
As most people know, B & I are unapologetic in our assertion that the modern martini is undrinkable. First off, it’s usually not a martini; it’s strained gin with an olive. Secondly, I just can’t get my head around gin…
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Voyager
We are now officially mired in the swelter of summer, leaving us languishing for the ocean breezes of the South Pacific. Obviously, something Tiki was in order, which is ironic, since if you want islands with a long tradition of…
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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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