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Favorite 1920s Cocktails?

FedoraGent

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Alright, now you have me going...

Sometime's it's nice to go back to visit earlier cocktails in their evolution...and to this I submit

Pre-Prohibition Martini

2/3 dry gin
1/3 dry vermouth
2 splashes orange bitters

Stirs with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a lemon peel.

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And for my friends across the pond, a expat bartender at the Savoy Bar in London during the 20's created this.

THE LAST WORD COCKTAIL:

3/4 ounce gin
3/4 ounce GREEN Chartreuse
3/4 ounce maraschino liqueur
3/4 ounce lime juice

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

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And I couldn't help myself...

Southside Cocktail

1 1/2 ounces gin
1/2 lime squeezed
1/2 ounce simple syrup
5 to 10 mint leaves

Combine with ice in a shaker and shake vigorously until the mint leaves are crushed and fall apart into small pieces. Strain into a cocktail glass. The Southside should be a pale, pretty green with bits of mint floating in it.

FG.
 

clubwitsend

Practically Family
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Oh! Don, my guy and partner in Wit's End, had a variation on a Last Word just last week!! He LOVED it.

i love the early version of the Pink Lady as well...totally prefer it without the cream.
 

FedoraGent

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I'd love the variation recipe

I'd love the variation recipe if you could get it.

FG.
clubwitsend said:
Oh! Don, my guy and partner in Wit's End, had a variation on a Last Word just last week!! He LOVED it.

i love the early version of the Pink Lady as well...totally prefer it without the cream.
 

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