Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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Dasiy de Santiago
With this post, we bid a fond farewell to Summer. It’s started raining and the limes are getting big enough to use, so we thought one final salute to that greatest of all seasons was in order. Having limes ready…
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Blackthorn (Irish Variation)
Astute readers will recall the we previously covered another version of the Blackthorn Cocktail, but which was gin based. In fact probably the original namesake was called the Blackthorn after the plum-bearing shrub that produces the sloe berry (from which…
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Paloma
So funny story… My parents and aunt and uncle were traipsing about with wilds of Michigan’s upper peninsula. Apparently want to cap off the evening and being fond of margaritas, they stopped by one of the local establishments and tried…
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Rosita
There are few things that say summer more to me than tequila. And good tequila (not the bottle of liquid stupid that we all drank way too much of in college) needs no help. Just a warm summer evening and…
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Bitter Intentions
It’s been hot here. And not just the usual “No problem; it’s a dry heat” hot, but that your eyes are hot; you can cook your brain kind of hot. And it’s June. Looks like it could be a…
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Venetian Spritz
Summer’s decidedly underway here, and to celebrate (actually an anniversary gift), B gave me a copy of Spritz: Italy’s Most Iconic Aperitivo Cocktail, with Recipes. We decided to go for a couple of classics, before wading into the modern machinations.…
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The Mother-in-Law Cocktail
Today’s post is an homage to that most unjustly maligned group, mother-in-laws. As exemplified by today’s post, they are, by and large, a fine and noble set. I found today’s cocktail while perusing Chuck Taggart‘s GumboPages.com (credit given,…
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Sangria de Jamaica
Summer is upon us and B and I decided today to relax on the patio after a day of helping to pot some plants at the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. We went with a sangria of our own creation. What…
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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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