Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails: Prohibition Centennial Edition From the 1920 Pick-Me-Up to the Zombie and Beyond - 150+ Rediscovered Recipes and the Stories Behind Them, With a New Introduction and 66 New Recipes

by Haigh, Ted

• ISBN13: 9781631598951
• ISBN10: 1631598953
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-03-03
• Publisher: Quarry Books

Summary

In this new, expanded edition of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails—issued for the 100th Anniversary of National Prohibition—historian, expert, and drink aficionado Ted Haigh, aka Dr. Cocktail vastly widens his examination of 1920–1933, the thirteen-year period when women got the Vote, child labor was abolished and, ironically, saw the cocktail elevated, prolonged, and expanded, spreading this signature American drink form in tasty ripples around the world. All this, plus more drink recipes!

Nothing is so desired as the thing denied. Prohibition made people want cocktails very, very badly. Because "synthetic" liquor was the easiest to make, it was also the easiest to get. Problematically, it tasted awful and wasn't exactly good for you either. Cocktails with their mélange of flavors were a made-to-order method for disguising the bad hooch.

Along with 100+ rare and delicious authentic recipes gathered from old cocktail manuals and scraps of paper never published, this illustrated trip down mixology lane tells the fascinating origins of the cocktail and how it evolved over time, including its rising popularity during Prohibition. Vintage illustrations and advertisements, photos of old bottles and cocktail artifacts, and fascinating Prohibition-era photographs bring the tippling past back to vivid life.

Recipes for rare treasures like The Fogcutter, Knickerbocker à la Monsieur, The Moscow Mule, and Satan’s Whiskers are each presented with:

• Historical background on its origin and cultural context
• Drink Notes that provide additional information on ingredients and tips for substitutions and variations
• Fascinating historical ephemera from Dr. Cocktail's personal collection

This homage to the great bartenders of the past and the beverages they created also profiles some of the most influential cocktail pioneers of today. For anyone who enjoys an icy drink and an unforgettable tale, this is a must-have volume.

Author Biography

Ted Haigh, a.k.a. Dr. Cocktail, makes his living as a graphic designer in the Hollywood movie industry and has worked on such spectacles as O Brother Where Art Thou?, American Beauty, and The Insider. Although he has been diligently researching cocktails since the '80s, his moonlighting as a cocktail historian became public in 1995, when he hosted the America Online spirits boards. In the intervening years, he has been quoted and referenced by the New York Times, Esquire, the Malt Advocate, and Men's Journal, as well as various books and other media. He is a partner in CocktailDB.com, an encyclopedic database of cocktail knowledge.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Greetings, Cocktail Archaeologists!
The Origins of the Cocktail
The Centennial of Prohibition
Cocktail Archaeology: A Trip Down Mixology Lane
 
RECIPES
Non-Alcoholic Prohibition Cocktails
Strawberry Cocktail
Cantaloupe Cocktail
Punch
Iced Orange Coffee
Superior Grape Juice
Raspberry Shrub
Frozen Fruit Punch
Florida Punch
Fruit Punch
Fiji Frappe
Temperance Punch
Meridian Mansions Punch
Fruit Swizzle
Congressional Club Punch
Concord Float
Cream Orange
Pineapple Cream
 
Illegal Prohibition Cocktails
1920 Pick-Me-Up
Attack Cocktail
Barton Special
Between the Sheets
The Bunny Hug
The Byrrh Cocktail
Cameron’s Kick
Careless Love
C.F.H. Cocktail
Cuban Bacardi Cocktail
De Rigueur Cocktail
Diabola Cocktail
Eagle’s Dream
Dorothy Gish Cocktail
Eve’s Apple
Green Fizz
Greenbriar Cocktail
Gringo Killer
The Hell Raiser
The I.B.F. Pick-Me-Up
Jamaica Glow
The Last Word
Legion Cocktail
The Lightner Special
Little Devil Cocktail
Littlest Rebel Cocktail
The Peacherino
Prohibition Cocktail
Quaker’s Cocktail
Quarantine Cocktail
The Red Flag
The Pussyfoot Cocktail
Reform Cocktail
The Revolving Door
The Ritz Millionaire
The Rising Sun
Stop Your Snuffling Now
The Tanglefoot
The Third Rail
Thunderclap
Truro Pick-Me-Up
Two Broken Legs
Volstead Cocktails
Twelve Miles Out
Ward Eight
The Wayne Wheeler Wine Cup
 
Cocktails Redux
The Alamagoozlum Cocktail
The Algonquin Cocktail
The Amarosa Cocktail
Arnaud’s Special Cocktail
The Avenue
The Aviation
Barbara West Cocktail
Barnum (Was Right) Cocktail
The Bebbo Cocktail
The Blackthorn Cocktail
The Blinker
Blood and Sand
The Blue Moon
Blue Paradise
The Boulevardier
The Brandy Crusta
The Brooklyn Cocktail
The Calvados Cocktail
Chatham Hotel Special
The Coffee Cocktail
The Communist
The Corpse Reviver #2
Crimean Cup à la Marmora
Curaçao Punch
The Delicious Sour
The Derby
Diki-Diki Cocktail
Doctor Cocktail
East India Cocktail
Fairbank Cocktail
The Filmograph Cocktail
Fish House Punch
The Flying Dutchman
The Fogcutter
Fogcutter (Early)
The Ford Cocktail
The Fred Collins Fiz
The French 75
The Georgia Mint Julep
Golden Dawn
Hanky Panky
Have a Heart Cocktail
Honeymoon Cocktail
The Income Tax Cocktail
The Jack Rose Cocktail
The Japalac Cocktail
Jasper’s Jamaican Planter’s Punch
The Jupiter Cocktail
Knickerbocker à la Monsieur
La Floridita Daiquiri
Leatherneck Cocktail
The Liberal
The Lion’s Tail
Lucien Gaudin Cocktail
Mamie Taylor
Milk Punch
The Millionaire
The Modernista
The Monkey Gland
The Moscow Mule
The Mother-in-Law Cocktail
Palm Beach Special
Park Avenue Cocktail
Pegu Club Cocktail
The Pendennis Cocktail
Picon Punch
Pink Gin
Ritz Sidecar
The Rose
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Cocktail
Saint Croix Rum Fix
Satan’s Whiskers Cocktail
The Scofflaw
The Secret Cocktail
The Seelbach Cocktail
Seventh Heaven
The Soother
Soyer au Champagne
The Straits Sling
Three to One Cocktail
Twelve Mile Limit
The Twentieth Century Cocktail
The Vesper
Vieux Carré Cocktail
Vowel Cocktail
The Widow’s Kiss
Don the Beachcomber’s Zombie
 
APPENDIX
Pioneers of the Forgotten Cocktail
Bibliography
Afterword
About the Author
Index