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Cocktail Directory
Classic cocktails are found in vintage recipe books from the mid-1800s to the 1980s.
- Daiquiri (Difford's recipe)
- Dry Martini 'Preferred' (5:1 ratio)
- Last Word
- Margarita on-the-rocks (Difford's recipe)
- Martinez (Difford's recipe)
- Negroni Cocktail
- Poet's Dream
- Dry Martini (15:1 ratio) Montgomery's
- Brooklyn (perfect)
- Prescription Julep
- Daiquiri No. 1 (6:2:1 formula)
- Affinity
- Air Mail
- Barbary Coast
- Blood and Sand (Classic formula)
- Bradford Martini
- Caipirinha
- Genever Collins
- Blood and Sand (Difford's recipe)
- Canchànchara
- Bamboo (Difford's 'Perfect' recipe)
- East India No.2
- El Presidente
- Dry Martini (15:5 dumped) Franklin
- French 75
- Garibaldi
- Gimlet (Difford's recipe)
- Gin & Tonic
- Grog
- Honeysuckle Daiquiri
- Irish Coffee
- Jack Dempsey
- Julep (Generic Name)
- Manhattan (Sweet)
- Margarita (straight-up)
- Mint Julep
- Mojito Cocktail
- Old Fashioned Cocktail (Difford's recipe)
- Pisco Punch (Difford's recipe)
- Pisco Sour (Difford's recipe)
- Ramos Gin Fizz
- Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
- Rum Punch
- Satan's Whiskers (Straight)
- Sazerac (Difford's split base)
- Spritz Al Bitter (Spritz Veneziano)
- San Francisco (Café Royal)
- Twentieth Century
- Whiskey Sour (Difford's recipe)
- Addington
- Bacardi Special
- Daiquiri No. 1 (Embury's 8:2:1 formula)
- Frank Sullivan Cocktail
- Highball (Generic Name)
- Barney Barnato Cocktail
- Daiquiri (on-the-rocks)
- Ford Cocktail
- Daiquiri (frozen)
- Daiquiri No. 3
- Martinez (with Old Tom gin)
- Vesper Dry Martini
- Froupe Cocktail
- Scotch Sour
- La Louisiane
- Preakness Manhattan
- Perfect Summit Manhattan
- Dry Martini (7:1 ratio) Embury's
- Brown Derby
- Pina Colada (Difford's recipe)
- 20th Century Cocktail
- Brooklyn (Grohusko's original)
- French 75 (Difford's recipe)
- Grassoide Ferro Cocktail
- Tuxedo (Difford's recipe)
- Millionaire's Martini
- Three Dots and a Dash
- Navy Grog
- Brandy Sangaree
- Jabberwock
- Dry Martini (10:1 ratio)
- Improved Whiskey Cocktail
- Psychopathia Sexualis
- Queen Elizabeth
- McKinley's Delight
- Greenbriar
- Warday's Cocktail
- Original Tequila Sunrise
- Livorno Punch (Ponce alla Livornese)
- Boothby Cocktail
- Californie Palace
- Chauncey
- Caballito Mojito
- Abbey
- Ace Of Clubs Daiquiri
- Adonis
- Algonquin
- American Beauty (by David Embury)
- Americano
- Apple Brandy Sour
- Apple Cart