Goes well with huevos rancheros and a blushing bridal
afterglow.
1 1/2 ounces sherry
1 egg
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
Drop of Tabasco sauce or dash of cayenne pepper

METHOD
1. Fill cocktail shaker with sherry, egg, powdered
sugar, and Tabasco sauce or cayenne pepper.
2. Shake.
3. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Perfect setting: pitcher for two, Melrose Avenue, a night of
endless possibilities.
1/5 dry red wine
1 ripe peach
6 slices lemon
1/2 ounce cognac
1 ounce triple sec
1 ounce maraschino liqueur
1 tablespoon sugar
1 whole orange
6 ounces chilled club soda

METHODS
1. Pour wine into a glass pitcher.
2. Add peeled and sliced peach and lemon slices.
3. Add cognac, triple sec, maraschino liqueur, and
sugar.
4. Stir to dissolve sugar.
5. Carefully place the orange in the pitcher. (See below.)
6. Let mixture marinate at room temperature for at
least 1 hour.
7. Add soda and 1 tray of ice cubes to pitcher.
8. Stir.
9. Pour into wine goblets.
(Serves 6)
(For orange: cut orange peel into one long strip,
beginning at stem end and continuing until spiral
reaches bottom of fruit. Make sure to expose the fruit
while cutting. Leave peel attached to orange bottom
to suspend fruit in pitcher.)

No, this does not involve carting a virgin off to the volcano.
Your fate is much more pleasant.
4 ounces pineapple juice
1 1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

METHOD
1 tablespoon cream
2 dashes Tabasco sauce
4 ounces crushed ice
1. Pour all ingredients into a blender.
2. Blend for 10 seconds on high speed.
3. Pour into a chilled old-fashioned glass.
4. Dust with cayenne pepper.

BRANDIED FLIP
Tastes so good you’ll do cartwheels and somersaults until
four.
1 ounce brandy
1 ounce apricot flavored brandy
1 small egg
1 teaspoon sugar

METHOD
1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add brandies, egg, and sugar.
3. Shake.
4. Strain into a chilled delmonico glass.
5. Dust with nutmeg.

A truly old-school beverage—served at weddings and
brunches through the decades.
8 ounces cold milk
1/2 ounce bourbon
3/4 ounce crème de cacao

METHOD
1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add milk, bourbon, and crème de cacao.
3. Shake.
4. Pour into a goblet.

Say Bloody Mary three times before bedtime. When you
wake up in the morning, be sure to have one.
1 1/2 ounces vodka (or peppered vodka for spice)
3 ounces tomato juice
1/2 ounce lemon juice
Dash or two Tabasco sauce
Dash or two Worcestershire sauce
Pinch of celery salt
Pinch of pepper
Dab of horseradish
1. Chill a cocktail shaker.
2. Add vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, Tabasco
sauce, and Worcestershire sauce.
3. Add salt, pepper, and horseradish to taste.
4. Pour into a chilled collins glass or beer mug.
5. Garnish with a lime slice or a celery stalk. Also
preferred as garnishes: pickled green beans, okra
pods, and garlic stuffed olives.