Royal Cocktail
The Champagne Cocktail has been around for a long time. It is one of the most enduring cocktails with good reason. It’s fabulous. What better cocktail for the April Signature Cocktail to commemorate the Royal Wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince Andrew.
4oz. (120 ml) Piper-Heidsieck champagne
3/4 oz. Remy Martn VSOP cognac
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 sugar cube
Put a drop or two of the bitters on the sugar cube, pour in the cognac and then the champagne. Serve with a twist of lime or lemon.
The Champagne Cocktail History
References to this drink are found as early as 1862 in The Bon Vivant’s Companion and Jerry Thomas’s How to Mix Drinks
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 or 2 dashes bitters
Piece of lemon peel
Champagne
Fill tumbler 1/3 full broken ice. Fill balance with wine. Shake well and serve.
Thomas later published an updated edition in 1887 removing the shaking and crushed ice . The recipe is similar to ours but adds an ice cube and stirs. Serve with a lemon peel.
Valentines Cocktail
As in the movie Julie and Julia starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams I, Brian decided this blog should have a theme. This year it will be “The Signature Cocktail” AKA Drink your way through the LCBO.
Due to a technical difficulty this blog crashed and burned in January. (Didn’t backup before updating) The blog had to be restarted and set up all new with much of the last six years gone. Oh well. To make a long story short the material, photography and work were all done but you will need to wait until next February for the Valentine’s signature cocktail. It was great. Did it twice.
The real purpose of this blog is to get you to go to ASAP Tent and Party Rental’s web site and rent your party rentals there instead somewhere else. To that end the recipes wil be available as a download on that web site. No link to-day because there will be a big special announcement in the very near future.
On St Patrick’s day what is more fitting than Irish Coffee? March’s signature cocktail The Irish Coffee made with 2 oz. of Jameson whiskey, 4 oz. coffee, 3 sugar cubes topped with whipped whipping cream.
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St Patricks Day Signature Cocktail Irish Coffee
In a preheated glass or mug place 3 sugar cubes and pour on 4 oz of hot coffee and stir. Mix in 1 1/2 to 2 oz. Jameson Irish Whiskey and top with unsweetened lightly whipped whipping cream. That’s it. Enjoy
This cocktail is generally attributed to Joseph Sheridan, a head chef at Foynes, County Limerick. It is believed that Stanton Delaplane, a travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, brought Irish coffee to the United States after drinking it at Shannon Airport.
