Have you booked your ticket to the
Official Fashion Meets Fiction Cocktail Party to help support
Guide Dogs Vicotria?
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.
Sidecar
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.
Mint Julep
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.
Gibson
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.
Manhattan
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).
Zombie
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.
The Official Fashion Meets Fiction Cocktail Party
When: Thursday 15th November 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Where: Burrinja Cultural Centre, Cnr of Glenfern & Matson Drive, Upwey VIC 3158
Cost: $55.00
Bookings essential phone 9754 8723 or
book online.
