Here are some vintage cocktail recipes that were popular in the 1930s and 1940s for inspiration! During this period, cocktails mainly consisted of gin, rum, brandy or whiskey. Many of the recipes had been around for a very long time, but it wasn't until the 1930s during Prohibition and the 1940s that they gained widespread popularity.
1 measure Cointreau
1 measure brandy/cognac
1 measure lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into sugar-rimmed cocktail (martini) glass and garnish with a strip of lemon rind.
** Is said to be credited to a Parisian bar tender who was asked to prepare a beverage by an American captain that would take away the chill from being outside.
2 measures bourbon (American whiskey)
8-10 fresh mint leaves
1 tbsp caster sugar
Put mint, sugar and a dash of hot water in a short glass, grind together, then spoon into a tall glass over crushed ice. Add bourbon, top off with crushed ice, stir well and stand to chill until the ice is partially melted. Garnish with mint leaves.
**One of the oldest cocktails of them all. Originiated in the southern United States, probably during the eighteenth century.
half measure dry white vermouth
2.5 measures gin
2 cocktail onions
Pour vermouth and gin into a glass with ice, stir and let chill for 30 seconds. Skewer onions on a cocktail stick and place in a cocktail (Martini) glass so onions rest at the bottom. Strain vermouth/gin into the glass.
**As an alternative to the Martini, with an onion garnish instead of an olive, the Gibson is thought to have originated in San Francisco's Bohemian Club in 1898.
2 and a quarter measures American rye whiskey
1 measures sweet red vermouth
Dash of bitters
Maraschino cherry to garnish
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail (Martini) glass, garnish with the cherry.
**Often referred to as "The King of Cocktails", the Manhattan is thought to have made its debut in the 1870s at a banquet hosted by the notorious Lady Randolph Churchill (yes, that's Winston's mum).
1 measure white rum
1 measure light rum
1 measure dark rum
1 measure apricot brandy
1 measure pineapple juice
1 measure papaya juice
½ measure rum
Dash of grenadine
Shake all ingredients other than the 151-proof rum with ice. Pour drink and ice into a tall glass and top with the high-proof rum.
**Legendary 1930s recipe created at Don the Beachcomber restaurant in Hollywood as a hangover cure and became popular at the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
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