Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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The Tulip Cocktail
I was looking for a preprandial cocktail when I came across the Tulip in Harry Craddock’s The Savoy Cocktail Book. It looked like a interesting combination of a few oddball things I had. Being straight out of a vintage cocktail…
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French Pearl
I was flipping through Twitter yesterday when I noticed an interesting tweet about a cocktail called a French Pearl from the self-described “dowager bartender and industry Den mother”, Audrey Saunders. She also happens to be a pillar of the cocktail…
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The Running of the Gins
Recently B connected two saliently fortuitous details. 1) Our cocktail bookshelf has at least two volumes dedicated to gin, and 2) we have a copious examples of gins in our cabinet. Seemed like a prime opportunity for a couple of…
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Hanky Panky Cocktail
As a tribute to the recently celebrated International Women’s Day, we thought we would give today’s cocktail, the Hanky Panky cocktail, a whirl. It’s creation was credited to one Ada Coleman, the head bartender at the American Bar at the…
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Crux
B and I were thumbing through several of our cocktail volumes looking for a suitable tipple to kick off 2017, when we came across the Crux in Robert Hess‘s The Essential Bartender’s Guide. It looked promising. Nice classic cocktail structure; at least one…
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The Derby Cocktail
B was thumbing through Ted Haigh‘s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, when she ran across what she thought might be a tasty tipple in The Derby. A quick perusal of the ingredients reveals that it’s awfully similar to one of…
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A Civilized Respite…
Mom and Teresa flew in for Thanksgiving. Mom, fresh from Australia, and T, fresh-ish from Cuba. After a decidedly gluttonous gorging of turkey, we set to decorating 22 feet of Christmas trees. Obviously, with a campaign of magnitude, fortification…
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Negroni Sbagliato
As summer is winding to a close (okay, we live in California; please don’t hate us. Okay, go ahead.) we thought we would have one more fling with the those classics of summer frivolity, the spritz. This item we are…
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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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