What is the best cocktail recipe book?

Question

I am about to buy a book with cocktails recipes, because it's much more easy to have the book than searching the Google every time you'd like to mix up new cocktail.

What do you suggest?

Answer 1

Not sure if this one is out of print by now, but the best I know of is "Gentleman's Companion". You might try thru Amazon or Powells.com for this one. If you're into cocktail recipes, this is the place you'll find the Sazarac, the Gimlet, the Old Fashioned and the Ramos and Silver Fizz recipes. In the brave new drinkin' world of cute pastel soda pop type mixed drinks, a trip down memory lane is more for not just a Gentleman, but also for Ladies Who Know what a real man drinks. Oh yes, let's not forget the Harvey's Wallbanger - a great fave for around the pool on Friday evenings.

Answer 2

If you want to go for some classics you could read: To Kill A Mockingbird, Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, The Great Gasby, The Catcher In The Rye, etc. Or you could read something Broadway like: Wicked, or Les Miserables Maybe whats hot right now: The Hunger Games, The Uglies Series, Anything Ally Carter (She's amazing) etc

Answer 3

Well...here's a list of soooooo amy authentic cocktail recipe books...



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Pre-1920 Vintage Cocktail Books

This is the up-to-date list of the pre-1920 anitiquarian bar & cocktail books in my collection.

(Only those which were published in the US or the UK in English. I have listed the French, Spanish, and German books separately.)





1862 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon Vivant's Companion - Jerry Thomas ($2.50 edition)

1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks - William Terrington

1869 Cups and their Customs - anon. (2nd ed.)

1885 The Art of Blending & Compounding Liquors and Wines - Joseph Fleischman

1887 American and other Drinks - Charlie Paul

1887 Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide - Jerry Thomas (Green cover)

1887 Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide - Jerry Thomas (Red cover)

1887 Jerry Thomas' Bar-Tender's Guide - Jerry Thomas (Brown cover)

1891 Wehman's Bartender's Guide - Henry J. Wehman

1891 Drinks á la Mode - Mrs. de Salis

1892 The Flowing Bowl - William Schmidt (The "only" William)

1892 Drinks of the World - James Mew & John Ashton

1895 The Mixicologist - C.F. Lawlor (Revised Ed.) (170-page softcover ed.)

1895 The Mixicologist - C.F. Lawlor (Revised Ed.) (174-page softcover ed.)

1895 Modern American Drinks - George J. Kappeler

1899 The Flowing Bowl - Edward Spencer

1899 Ye Cocktails - Cocktails How to make them - anon.

1900 The new and improved illustrated Bartender's Manual - Harry Johnson

1901 The Cocktail Book - Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen (L.C. Page & Company)

1902 The Cocktail Book - Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen (John Mc Queen)

1904 Drinks as they are mixed - Paul E. Lowe

190x Drinks as they are mixed - Paul E. Lowe (Grein & Pahls Drink Mixer's Manual ed.)

1906 Louis' Mixed Drinks - Louis Muckensturm

1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard - A. Lyman Phillips

1908 Jack's Manual - Recipes for Fancy Drinks - Jack A. Grohusko

1909 Drinks - How to Mix and how to Serve - Paul E. Lowe (US ed.)

1909 Drinks - How to Mix and how to Serve - Paul E. Lowe (UK ed.)

1910 Jack's Manual - Recipes for Fancy Drinks - Jack A. Grohusko

1912 Bartender's Guide - How to mix drinks, Wehman Bros.

1912 Dr. Siegerts Complete Mixing Guide - Angostura Bitters

1913 Applegreen's Bar Book - John Applegreen (4th ed.)

1914 Rawling's Book of Mixed Drinks - Ernest P. Rawling

1914 New Bartender's Guide - 2-in-1 - L.&M. Ottenheimer

c1914 Modern Drinks (Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.)

c1914 The World's Drinks and How to mix them - William T. Boothby

1917 The Ideal Bartender - Tom Bullock

191x Snake bites or something - Good Cheer - anon.

191x Drinks - Jacques Straub

191x The Flowing Bowl - Edward Spencer (4th ed.)

191x Booze Book - Clysmic King of Table Waters





(Updated March, 27, 2011)