GiggleH2O

08/20/2026

01/18/2025

A Classic sidecar at a classic location.

09/24/2024

Looking at the wallpaper, this is the only possible choice of cocktail. What is it?

08/30/2024

The possibility of being poisoned by the bootlegger's booze was real - real enough to be a plausible incident in contemporary novels. In Young Man of Manhattan by Katharine Brush (1929) the female protagonist almost dies and is left blind for a number of weeks after drinking wh***ey which was in fact methyl alcohol.

05/29/2024

Just can't get my head out of this British vintage cocktail book - Cocktails How to Mix Them (1932). Here's a lovely little drink, The Royal Cocktail, which coincidentally uses Dubonet, one of the late Queen's (and her mother's) favorite tipples, although its name comes from being first introduced at the Royal Hotel in Dieppe in 1921.

Fill the bar glass half full of broken ice and add:
1 dash of Orange Bitters
1 dash of Angostura Bitters
2/6 gill of Gin
1/6 gill of Dubonet
Stir up well, strain into cocktail glass, add a cherry, and squeeze lemon-peel on top.

By the way, remember a British gill is 5 ounces.

05/25/2024

Whipped back from the Avalon Ball - thank you - then whipped into hosting family members and catching up with work. So, when I came across this little number - The Whip Cocktail - I just had to give it a taste.

1/2 oz Absinthe Pernod,
1/2 oz. French Vermouth,
1/2 oz Brandy,
1/2 oz Curacao (or Triple Sec).
Shake until frozen, then strain into a glass. Here I have used a small fizz glass.

I found it in Cocktails: How to Mix Them (1932) which notes, "In Egypt they call it 'Kurbag' which is the Arabic word for whip"