Put this top of the list when you next go on a diet- it’s the perfect booster.
Josiah’s Bay Float
This is a wonderful cocktail for a special occasion in the summer. Designed for two to share, perhaps as engagement or a romantic alfresco dinner would be appropriate. For the more prosaic, serve in tall, chilled tumblers, rather than a pineapple shell.
Mary Pickford
There is at least one other cocktail that claims to take its name from Mary Pickford, silent-screen film goddess, wife of Douglas Fairbanks Senior, and hailed as “America’s sweetheart” in her day. Whichever of the brews she herself favoured, she was breaking the law, for this was the time of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition.
Mojito
A favourite of Ernest Hemingway and other Havana movers in the early 1900s, the Mojito (pronounced moe-hee-toe) has a reputation as the Cosmo for the more adventurous.
Tom and Jerry
It is thought the origin of this cocktail dates back to the 1850s,when, it is believed, it was first mixed by Jerry Thomas, a famous St.Louis bartender of the day. Later, the name simply got changed, probably at the same time as the original recipe was simplified substantially.
Bee’s Knees
Another survivor from the long-ago days of prohibition and speakeasies that sprang up across the length and breadth of the U.S. It is one of the few cocktails in which honey features as part of the brew.
Brass Monkey
This potent concoction originated at sea, though probably in the officer’s wardroom rather than the seaman’s quarters. The “Brass Monkey” was the name given to the metal rack on which cannonballs were stored on the mighty men-of-war of the great days of sail.
Juniper Royale
This drink takes the royal treatment even further by gilding the juniper flavor with fruit juices and a blush of pink grenadine for a bubbly elixir of pure pleasure.
Pall Mall
This merry charmer is a popular classic from the 1930s and has just enough pepper minty crème de menthe to refresh and refuel.
