Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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Django Reinhardt
It has been a bit hot here lately. And by a bit, I mean “cook you brain/even the cactus looks PO’d hot”. So when B & I were thinking about what to drink, it had to be something on the…
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Whoa, Nellie!
As even the occasional reader of this blog can attest, we generally are a bit circumspect when it comes to newly minted cocktails. When we were reading Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally Brennan‘s book, In the Land of Cocktails, and they described being…
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Pegu Club
The last post on the blog, Intro to Aperol, by Audrey Saunders at Pegu Club, got me thinking about the name sake of that establishment: the orginal Pegu Club, in Burma. The 1930 edition of Harry Craddock’s The Savoy Cocktail…
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Intro to Aperol
B & I were looking through the liquor cabinet in search of inspiration this Sunday and came across our bottle of Aperol. A quick perusal of our blog revealed an omission of a really great cocktail gem. Although not, in…
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The Income Tax Cocktail
The tax man cometh here at CocktailswithM. And by way of balm to solace our ragged nerves, we have today’s post. After a bit of digging in to the back story on the Income Tax cocktail, I have to confess…
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Brains… Must have brains…
Even here in this happy oasis of a cocktail blog, one cannot completely escape the inexorable march of time. So, hopefully one of these will ease your forgiving this belated homage to All Hallows’ Eve. We decided what better way…
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The Russell Cocktail
This is a CocktailswithM first—a cocktail of our own creation. Normally we stay away from this because 1) in more than a century of mixing a limited number of ingredients together, it’s probably already been done, and 2) if it…
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A bitter edge
This weeks post is a bit of a departure from the usual cocktail recipe and discussion. Instead I want to discuss something essential to so many great cocktails, which would not be terribly hyperbolic to call it the essence 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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