Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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Teresa’s Desert Island Bourbon
The question put before us by my brother was quite simple for me (and my brother) to answer. If you are reading this blog, you are likely accustomed to long winded tales about the good booze, so settle in. While…
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Desert Island Bourbon
I was sitting in my chair having my usual nightcap and contemplating how the news feed on my phone seems to be alarmingly full of opinion pieces about bourbon earnestly provided by a whole range of sources from the venerable…
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Mon Nouvel Ami
This is another in our new series of cocktails from David Lebovitz‘s Drinking French…. This one is actually David’s riff on a classic cocktail invented by famed Parisian bartender Harry MacElhone of Harry’s New York Bar, appearing in his 1922…
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Tangerine Spritz
This is the first in series of cocktails from David Lebovitz‘s Drinking French… B got this book when it came out last week. We (and B, especially) have been long time fans of David Lebovitz;s cookbooks and blog. I think…
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The Fitzgerald Cocktail
Admittedly, 2019 was not a prolific year for Molecular Drinking. To help get 2020 off to a more auspicious start, our Meyer lemon tree decided to be absurdly prolific in 2019. So, with an abundance of lemons in hand, we…
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Ideal Cocktail
I was perusing the newly revised edition of the Waldorf Astoria Bar Book that my in laws gave me this past Christmas, when I ran across a tipple that looked rather promising. I, to again reiterate, am not a martini…
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Pomegranate Margarita
There are times when circumstances necessitate invention. It’s pomegranate season here and we have a lot of them. We also have a serious juicer. Normally I’m a fan of just drinking tequila straight (Herradura reposada is my go to) with…
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Cappelletti Spritz
B was exceptionally generous this birthday and indulged my love of obscure booze. To this end, I got two different amaro that I didn’t have, Cappelletti and Averna. Fortunately, my birthday last year also provided me with Brad Thomas Parsons‘…
Brenda & M
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Hi there! We are Brenda and M, scientists by day and a knitter/piano player/gardener and a tinker/putterer/cook and bartender in a parallel universe. This blog was born out of Brenda’s earlier blog MolecularKnitting and in interest in really cool vintage cocktails.
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