The Savoy Cocktail Book - Hardcover

Craddock, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0486828417 ISBN 13: 9780486828411

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2018

Synopsis

Everything you ever need to know about choosing and mixing drinks is right here in this rare and highly collectible volume. Written by a legendary mixologist, it's the ultimate bartender's book, bursting with 750 recipes. Consisting mostly of cocktails, it comprises nonalcoholic drinks as well as sours, toddies, flips, egg nogs, slings, fizzes, coolers, rickeys, juleps, punches, and a myriad of other delectable refreshments. Extensive coverage of wines introduces the products of Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne, as well as Rhine wines, port, and sherry.
This special edition is richly illustrated with unique color images from the original 1930 publication — dozens of period drawings that imbue the book with a lively Jazz Age spirit. A splendid gift for bartenders and housewarming parties, it's also a fine and comprehensive addition to home bars and libraries.

About this title

About the Author

English bartender Harry Craddock (1875/76–1963) trained in the United States at Cleveland's grandest luxury hotel, the Hollenden, rising to prominence as one of the top mixologists of the twenties and thirties. During Prohibition, Craddock returned to England, where he worked at the American Bar of London's Savoy Hotel and cofounded the United Kingdom Bartenders Guild. "The Dean of Shakers," he is credited with inventing the dry martini as well as several classic cocktails, including Corpse Reviver No. 2 and the White Lady.

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The Savoy Cocktail Book

By Harry Craddock

Dover Publications, Inc.

Copyright © 2018 Harry Craddock
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-486-82841-1

Contents

Preface, 7, 
Foreword, 8, 
PART I., 
Cocktails: Historical Note, 13, 
Cocktail recipes in alphabetical order, 16, 
Prepared Cocktails for Bottling, 182, 
Non-Alcoholic Cocktails, 184, 
Cocktails suitable for a Prohibition Country, 184, 
Sours, 186, 
Toddies, 186, 
Flips, 187, 
Egg Noggs, 188, 
Tom Collins, 189, 
Slings, 190, 
Shrubs, 191, 
Sangarees, 192, 
Highballs, 192, 
Fizzes, 193, 
Coolers, 201, 
Rickeys, 203, 
Daisies, 204, 
Fixes, 205, 
Juleps, 206, 
Smashes, 208, 
Cobblers, 209, 
Frappe, 209, 
Punches, 210, 
Cups, 219, 
PART II., 
Wines, 222, 
Introduction: The Lucky Hour of Great Wines, by "Colette", 223, 
The Wines of Bordeaux, 230, 
Champagne, 248, 
The Wines of Burgundy, 258, 
Hocks and Moselles, 266, 
Port, 272, 
Sherry, 276, 
Concluding Remarks, 280, 
Blank Pages For Additions, 284, 
Question: Who Was Harry Craddock?, 288, 

CHAPTER 1

HISTORICAL NOTE

MOST of the people one meets in places where Cocktails grow have an idea that they know the origin of the word "Cocktail"; none of them. However, agree as to what that origin is, and in any case they are all wrong, as they always put that origin somewhere between sixty and seventy years ago, whereas in The Balance, an American periodical, of May 13, 1806, we read that: "Cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion." This is the earliest reference to the Cocktail that I have been able to find in print.

Historians have been misled by the word "Cocktail" into imagining that it was once in some way connected with the plumage of the domestic rooster. But this is not so. The true, authentic and incontrovertible story of the origin of the Cocktail is as follows: —

Somewhere about the beginning of the last century there had been for some time very considerable friction between the American Army of the Southern States and King Axolotl VIII of Mexico. Several skirmishes and one or two battles took place, but eventually a truce was called and the King agreed to meet the American general and to discuss terms of peace with him.

The place chosen for the meeting was the King's Pavilion, and thither the American general repaired, and was accommodated with a seat on the Bench, as it were, next to King A. himself. Before opening negotiations, however, His Majesty asked the general, as one man to another, if he would like a drink, and being an American general he of course said yes. The King gave a command and in a few moments there appeared a lady of entrancing and overwhelming beauty, bearing in her slender fingers a gold cup encrusted with rubies and containing a strange potion of her own brewing. Immediately an awed and ominous hush fell upon the assembly, for the same thought struck everyone at the same time, namely, that as there was only one cup either the King or the general would have to drink out of it first, and that the other would be bound to feel insulted. The situation was growing tense when the cup-bearer seemed also to realize its difficulty, for with a sweet smile she bowed her shapely head in reverence to the assembly and drank the drink herself. Everything was saved and the conference came to a satisfactory ending, but before leaving, the general asked if he might know the name of the lady who had shown such tact. "That," proudly said the King, who had never seen the lady before, "is my daughter Coctel."

"Right," replied the general, "I will see that her name is honoured for evermore by my Army."

Coctel, of course, became Cocktail, and there you are! There exists definite unquestionable proof of the truth of this story, but no correspondence upon the subject can in any circumstances be entertained.

So much for the early history of Cocktails. Since those days the Art of the Cocktail has developed very considerably, and in the following pages you will find the essence of the Art of Harry Craddock of the Savoy, the King of Cocktail Shakers, who has inspired, disciplined, ordered and arranged it. There arc few people in the world who can match his vast knowledge of liquids of all kinds, of how to mix them, and of how to create new cocktails for all great or state occasions, so that it is in all confidence that this book is set before you — the confidence that if anything should have been omitted it is in all probability not worth including.

At the same time, a few blank pages have been left at the end of the list of Cocktails for the addition of any new Cocktails that may be invented in the future.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486828417
• ISBN 13: 9780486828411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288