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My Favourite Cocktail Recipes
As I said earlier on the home page; quite a few people would describe me as a cocktail pianist. My influences are pianists like: George Shearing, Oscar Peterson, Monty Alexander and Dudley Moore - all easy listening stuff really. I do play for a lot of cocktail parties, and my music does seem ideal for that sort of thing - so it's no great surprise that I've acquired a taste for champagne and cocktails as a result.The transformation from a Northern beer guzzler has been quite amazing! What is a cocktail pianist?I don't know exactly where the term 'cocktail pianist' comes from, but in my head it evokes images of that well known scene from the film 'Casablanca' and I would imagine that to most people a cocktail pianist sits perfectly in a 1930s black and white American movie. I think that most people imagine a cocktail pianist to be: someone at a piano, dressed in a white tuxedo, playing a gentle type of jazz that doesn't intrude too much and yet makes a significant contribution to the general ambience. What follows (eventually) is is a list of my favourite cocktails, but unfortunately I don't have my favourite recipes. Good cocktail barmen have their own unique way of making drinks and they often keep the information to themselves (they don't even tell their favourite cocktail pianist). Here are the recipes I've managed to scavenge from one source or another. Use the links below to go straight to each recipe.
This seems to be a favourite of many a cocktail pianist.
Shake
all the ingredients (except cola) with cracked ice. Strain and pour
into a highball glass. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1/2
part gin Serves 1
Pour the rum and tequila into a tumbler over the ice. Top up with the juices. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
part tequila Serves 1
Float brandy on top of benedictine in a cordial glass without mixing and serve. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1/2
oz. brandy Serves 1
Shake well with cracked ice. Strain into old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
1/2 oz. vodka Serves 1
DIRECTIONS old fashioned glass with ice cubes, float drambuie on top COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 3/4
oz. whisky Serves 1
Shake all the ingredients with the ice and serve in a lowball glass.Or alternatively, layer in 3 distinct and separate layers. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
part grand marnier Serves 1
Mix tequila and orange juice in a glass, then pour in Grenadine GENTLY so that it falls to the bottom. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
1/2 parts tequila Serves 1
Every cocktail pianist has tried one of these at one time or another. DIRECTIONS Put the ice cubes into a mixing glass. Pour the vermouth and gin over the ice and stir (never shake) vigorously and evenly without splashing. Then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve with a green olive and a straw. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 3
parts gin Serves 1
Stir with cracked ice. Strain into cocktail glass. Serve with a cherry. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
1/2 oz. whisky Serves 1
DIRECTIONS Shaken, not stirred! COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 2
parts tequila
Shake all the ingredients with cracked ice. Pour into a cocktail glass. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
1/2 parts vodka Serves 1
Stir all the ingredients together in a bar glass. Then pour into a highball glass. Then pour a dash of blue curacao over the top. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 3
parts vodka Serves 1
Shake the vodka and kahlua. Pour over the ice. Top up with cola. Serve in a tumbler. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 2
parts vodka Serves 1
Strawberry
Daiquiri
Pour the rum, crème de fraises, lemon juice, strawberries and ice into a blender and process at slow speed for 5 seconds, then at high speed for 20 seconds. Pour into a chilled glass. COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
part white rum Serves 1
shake, strain into lowball glass COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
Splash orange juice
blend, serve in exotic glass cherry and/or pineapple slice straw COCKTAIL INGREDIENTS 1
part white rum Serves 1
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