Between the Sheets
Ingredients
- 30 ml cognac
- 30 ml white rum
- 30 ml triple sec
- 30 ml lemon juice
- lemon slice
Method
- Add all the liquid ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into a cocktail glass.
- Garnish with a lemon slice.
Bloody Mary
Ingredients
- 60 ml vodka
- 120 ml tomato juice
- 2 dashes Tabasco sauce
- 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
- 1 pinch smoked paprika
- salt
- lemon slice
- 1 lime wedge
- 3 green pimento olives
Method
- Place some salt on a saucer. Rub lime wedge around rim of a tall glass, then coat glass rim in salt.
- Squeeze remains of lime wedge into a shaker, add the liquid ingredients and spices, and shake gently.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
- Garnish with lemon slice and skewered olives.
Cosmopolitan
Ingredients
- 45 ml vodka
- 30 ml triple sec
- 30 ml lime juice
- 15 ml cranberry juice
- lemon peel
Method
- Add all the liquid ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into a cocktail glass.
- Garnish with lemon peel.
Cuba Libre
Ingredients
- 60 ml dark rum
- Coca-Cola to top
- lime wedge
- 3 lime slices
Method
- Fill a tall glass with ice and add the rum.
- Squeeze in the juice of the lime wedge and drop remains in.
- Top with Coke.
- Drop in the lime slices.
Daiquiri
Ingredients
- 60 ml white rum
- 30 ml lime juice
- 15 ml sugar syrup
- lime slice
Method
- Add all the liquid ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into a cocktail glass.
- Garnish with lime slice.
Harvey Wallbanger
Ingredients
- 45 ml vodka
- 90 ml orange juice
- 30 ml Galliano
- orange slice
Method
- Fill a tall glass with ice
- Add the vodka and orange juice, stir.
- Float the Galliano on top.
- Garnish with a skewered orange slice.
Hell’s Kitchen
Ingredients
- 60 ml Irish whiskey
- 30 ml sweet vermouth
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- lemon wedge
Method
- Add the liquid ingredients into a mixing glass with ice and stir until well-chilled.
- Strain into a cocktail glass.
- Squeeze lemon wedge into glass then add the remains.
Hurricane
Ingredients
- 30 ml dark rum
- 30 ml white rum
- 30 ml orange juice
- 30 ml lemon juice
- 15 ml sugar syrup
- 1 tsp grenadine
- orange slice
Method
- Add the liquid ingredients except the grenadine into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into a hurricane glass.
- Gently add the grenadine so it settles at the bottom.
- Garnish with orange slice.
Margarita
Ingredients
- 60 ml blanco tequila
- 30 ml triple sec
- 30 ml lime juice
- 15 ml sugar syrup
- lime wedge
- salt
- lime slice
Method
- Place some salt on a saucer. Rub lime wedge around rim of a cocktail glass, then coat glass rim in salt.
- Add all the liquid ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
- Garnish with lime slice.
Martini
Ingredients
- 75 ml gin
- 15 ml dry vermouth
- 1 dash orange bitters
- lemon peel
Method
- Add the liquid ingredients into a mixing glass with ice and stir gently until well-chilled.
- Strain into a martini glass.
- Garnish with lemon peel.
Mexican Firing Squad
Ingredients
- 60 ml blanco tequila
- 30 ml lime juice
- 30 ml grenadine
- 4 dashes Angostura bitters
- lime slice
Method
- Add all liquid ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
- Strain into a cocktail glass over fresh ice.
- Garnish with a lime slice.
Mojito
Ingredients
- 60 ml white rum
- 15 ml sugar syrup
- 3 mint leaves
- 30 ml lime juice
- Soda water to top
- lime slice
- sprig of mint
Method
- Muddle the mint leaves with the sugar syrup in a shaker.
- Add the rum, lime juice, and ice, and shake gently until chilled.
- Strain into a tall glass, and top with soda water.
- Garnish with lime slice and mint sprig.
Negroni
Ingredients
- 60 ml gin
- 60 ml sweet vermouth
- 60 ml Campari
- orange slice
Method
- Add the liquid ingredients to a stirring glass with ice, stir until well chilled.
- Strain into a cocktail glass.
- Garnish with orange slice.
Piña Colada
Ingredients
- 60 ml white rum
- 45 ml coconut cream
- 45 ml pineapple juice
- 15 ml lime juice
- lime slice
- sprig of mint
Method
- Add the liquid ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake vigorously until well chilled.
- Strain into a hurricane glass.
- Garnish with lime slice and mint sprig.
Sidecar
Ingredients
- 45 ml cognac
- 30 ml triple sec
- 15 ml lemon juice
- orange peel
- lemon wedge
- caster sugar
Method
- Place some sugar on a saucer. Rub lemon wedge around rim of a martini glass, then coat glass rim in sugar.
- Add the liquid ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake until well chilled.
- Strain into the prepared glass.
- Garnish with orange peel.
Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients
- 60 ml blanco tequila
- 120 ml orange juice
- 1 teaspoon grenadine
Method
- Fill a cocktail glass with ice.
- Add the tequila and orange juice, stir to combine.
- Gently add the grenadine so it settles at the bottom.
Notes
These are my favoured proportions. YMMV.
I use a jigger with 30 ml / 15 ml capacity (US 1 ounce / 1/2 ounce).
I use a classic cocktail shaker.
I use freshly squeezed juices.
I use what I call cocktail glasses, tall glasses, martini glasses, and hurricane glasses. YMMV.
Generally, I like a bit of garnish with my cocktails. My choice is not always the classic or traditiona. Whatevs.