Vintage Spirits and Forgotten co*cktails: 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 RecipesHardcover (2024)

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In this new, expanded edition of Vintage Spirits and Forgotten co*cktails—issued for the 100th Anniversary of National Prohibition—historian, expert, and drink aficionado Ted Haigh, aka Dr. co*cktail vastly widens his examination of 1920–1933, the thirteen-year period when women got the Vote, child labor was abolished and, ironically, saw the co*cktail 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 co*cktails 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. co*cktails 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 co*cktail manuals and scraps of paper never published, this illustrated trip down mixology lane tells the fascinating origins of the co*cktail and how it evolved over time, including its rising popularity during Prohibition. Vintage illustrations and advertisem*nts, photos of old bottles and co*cktail 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. co*cktail's personal collection

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

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About the Author

Ted Haigh, a.k.a. Dr. co*cktail, 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 co*cktails since the '80s, his moonlighting as a co*cktail 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 co*cktailDB.com, an encyclopedic database of co*cktail knowledge.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Greetings, co*cktail Archaeologists!
The Origins of the co*cktail
The Centennial of Prohibition
co*cktail Archaeology: A Trip Down Mixology Lane

RECIPES
Non-Alcoholic Prohibition co*cktails
Strawberry co*cktail
Cantaloupe co*cktail
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 co*cktails
1920 Pick-Me-Up
Attack co*cktail
Barton Special
Between the Sheets
The Bunny Hug
The Byrrh co*cktail
Cameron’s Kick
Careless Love
C.F.H. co*cktail
Cuban Bacardi co*cktail
De Rigueur co*cktail
Diabola co*cktail
Eagle’s Dream
Dorothy Gish co*cktail
Eve’s Apple
Green Fizz
Greenbriar co*cktail
Gringo Killer
The Hell Raiser
The I.B.F. Pick-Me-Up
Jamaica Glow
The Last Word
Legion co*cktail
The Lightner Special
Little Devil co*cktail
Littlest Rebel co*cktail
The Peacherino
Prohibition co*cktail
Quaker’s co*cktail
Quarantine co*cktail
The Red Flag
The puss*foot co*cktail
Reform co*cktail
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 co*cktails
Twelve Miles Out
Ward Eight
The Wayne Wheeler Wine Cup

co*cktails Redux
The Alamagoozlum co*cktail
The Algonquin co*cktail
The Amarosa co*cktail
Arnaud’s Special co*cktail
The Avenue
The Aviation
Barbara West co*cktail
Barnum (Was Right) co*cktail
The Bebbo co*cktail
The Blackthorn co*cktail
The Blinker
Blood and Sand
The Blue Moon
Blue Paradise
The Boulevardier
The Brandy Crusta
The Brooklyn co*cktail
The Calvados co*cktail
Chatham Hotel Special
The Coffee co*cktail
The Communist
The Corpse Reviver #2
Crimean Cup à la Marmora
Curaçao Punch
The Delicious Sour
The Derby
Diki-Diki co*cktail
Doctor co*cktail
East India co*cktail
Fairbank co*cktail
The Filmograph co*cktail
Fish House Punch
The Flying Dutchman
The Fogcutter
Fogcutter (Early)
The Ford co*cktail
The Fred Collins Fiz
The French 75
The Georgia Mint Julep
Golden Dawn
Hanky Panky
Have a Heart co*cktail
Honeymoon co*cktail
The Income Tax co*cktail
The Jack Rose co*cktail
The Japalac co*cktail
Jasper’s Jamaican Planter’s Punch
The Jupiter co*cktail
Knickerbocker à la Monsieur
La Floridita Daiquiri
Leatherneck co*cktail
The Liberal
The Lion’s Tail
Lucien Gaudin co*cktail
Mamie Taylor
Milk Punch
The Millionaire
The Modernista
The Monkey Gland
The Moscow Mule
The Mother-in-Law co*cktail
Palm Beach Special
Park Avenue co*cktail
Pegu Club co*cktail
The Pendennis co*cktail
Picon Punch
Pink Gin
Ritz Sidecar
The Rose
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club co*cktail
Saint Croix Rum Fix
Satan’s Whiskers co*cktail
The Scofflaw
The Secret co*cktail
The Seelbach co*cktail
Seventh Heaven
The Soother
Soyer au Champagne
The Straits Sling
Three to One co*cktail
Twelve Mile Limit
The Twentieth Century co*cktail
The Vesper
Vieux Carré co*cktail
Vowel co*cktail
The Widow’s Kiss
Don the Beachcomber’s Zombie

APPENDIX
Pioneers of the Forgotten co*cktail
Bibliography
Afterword
About the Author
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