Cocktail Hints
Cocktails consist (more often than not) of a liquor
- usually Gin, Whiskey or Rum
-with flavouring added.
When the flavouring is Lemon or Lime Juice, some sugar or sugar syrup, or a sweet cordial, is generally required also.
Cocktails like the Martini and Manhattan, which contain only liquors, may be stirred vigorously with a rod or longspoon.
Cocktails which contain fruit juices or eggs should be brutalised at length with a Shaker.
Most cocktails are at their best ice-cold:
they should be shaken or stirred psychotically with ice-cubes
(cracked or shaven ice is even better)
strained then served promptly in thin, clear, stemmed glasses.
Chilled glasses are an added refinement.
Cocktails should not be made in advance
With ingredients lined up beforehand, the making is a speedy, social activity.
Citrus Juice should only be squeezed as required - it goes cloudy if let stand between rounds.
It is better (and rather more elegant)
to make numerous small fresh shakers of a cocktail
than to make one large shakerful and let it stand between drinks.
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