Cocktails - How to Make Them

By Steven Carroll and Lorna Carroll

An insightful book of forty eight cocktail recipes and how to make them. A COCKTAIL is an appetizer or stomach stimulant and differs from other drinks in that it is supposed to contain Bitters.

Cocktails should always be made in a glass with cracked ice, stirred with a spoon, and sufficient ice should be used so that when the drink is served the melting of the ice will cause the drink to be at least one-third water. The finer the ice the quicker it dissolves in the liquor, and hence the colder the drink.

A cocktail should never be bottled and should always be made at the time of drinking. A bottled cocktail might be likened unto a depot sandwich―neither are fit for use except in case of necessity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365947575

Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll is the multi-award winning author of fifteen novels including A World of Other People (2013), which was the joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, and The Time We Have Taken (2007), which was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region and the Miles Franklin Award in 2008. Forever Young (2015) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2016. A New England Affair (2017) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2018 and The Year of the Beast (2019) was longlisted for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize. His most recent novel, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight was longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize and for the 2023 Voss Literary Prize. Steven lives in Melbourne with his partner, the author Fiona Capp, and their son.

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Cocktails - How to Make Them

Cocktails - How To Make Them

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A COCKTAIL is an appetizer or stomach stimulant and differs from other drinks in that it is supposed to contain Bitters.

It is the purpose of this book to give the rules for the mixing of simple and well-known cocktails. As to rules for fancy cocktails there is no end, and the addition of the various ingredients for sweetening and blending of fancy cocktails has been left to the taste of the mixer.

A dry cocktail is one in which very little, if any,