Many years ago I inherited an old portable liquor cabinet.  Inside this liquor cabinet I found many little treasures like pre world war drink stirrers with little whistles on them, old drink coasters with in that day scantly clad women on them and some great cocktail recipe books.  I will give you my favorite recipes of drinks you probably never heard of, tried or want to try but where very popular back in the day.  If you can find the ingredients try them and tell me what you like:

• Black Stripe: 
  • 1.5 oz. Jamaican Rum
  • 1 teaspoon Molasses
•  1934:
  • 3/4 ounce Dry Gin
  • 3/4 ounce orange Curacao
  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice
  • 3/4 ounce jamaican Rum
  • 3/4 ounce Grenandine
  • Shake together ingredients and pour into glass.  It if first prepared by rubbing the lip of the glass witha slice of lemon and dipping into sugar.  This is a prize winning cocktail from International Bar Mixers union at Frankfurt Oct. 1934.
• Pink Lady:
  • 1 1/2 ounces of dry Gin
  • 1 white of an egg
  • 3/4 ounce of Grenadine.
  • Shake well with ice and strain into a glass
• Maple Leaf:
  • 3/4 ounce Canadian Whiskey
  • 3/4 ounce pure maple syrup
  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice
  • Shake with ice and strain into a glass
• Black Velvet:
  • Fill glass half way with Guiness Stout
  • Add champagne
  • Stir slowly.  A morning drink, once referred to as “The Boss’s Drink”.
• Blue Blazer: (try this one)
  • This a cold weather drink good for the chills.  It  mixing apparatus, and its preparation today is seldom if ever attempted.  Take 2 metal mugs or 2 heavy bar glasses. In one mug dissolve a teaspoon of powdered sugar in a little water.  Add 3 oz. of boiling water.  In the other mug pour 3 oz. whiskey or brandy , ignite.  Hurl the ignited liquor into the mug containing the hot water and pour back and forth rapidly.  This should be done spectacularly to give the effect of a stream of liquid fire.  Pour into a glass-prepared with a twist of lemon peel. 

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