63businesstraveller.com DECEMBER 2017
BARS
Five classic
cocktail
recipes
COSMOPOLITAN
A fruity cocktail created
during the late 1970s or
early 80s. The classic
vodka-based tipple gained
mass popularity in the
90s, courtesy ofSex and
the City.
Ingredients:2oz vodka,
1oz Cointreau, 1oz cranberry
juice, 1oz lime juice
How to mix:Add the
ingredients and plenty
of ice into a shaker and
shake for 20 seconds.
Pour the mix into a chilled
cocktail glass. Decorate
with orange or lemon peel.3
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MANHATTAN
A cocktail made with American
whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.
According to popular legend, the
drink takes its name from where it
was invented: at a banquet in New
York’s Manhattan Club in the 1880s.
Ingredients: 2oz rye whiskey,
1oz sweet vermouth, 2oz Angostura
bitters, handful of ice
How to mix: Simply put all the
ingredients into a mixing glass, fill
with ice and give it a stir. Pour into
a chilled cocktail glass and garnish
with a cherry.MOJITO
A traditional Cuban summer
cocktail served over ice in a
highball glass.
Ingredients: 1½ oz white
rum, 8 mint leaves,
1 cup ice cubes, ½ lime,
2 teaspoons of caster sugar,
1½ oz soda water
How to mix: Muddle the
mint, and put it in a shaker.
Add the sugar, lime juice
and rum, and fill with ice.
Shake and pour into a
highball glass. Top up with
soda and decorate with a
mint spring.NEGRONI
This classic Italian cocktail has
many versions of its history. One
story is that an Italian who was
always travelling in America asked
his bartender friend to strengthen
his favourite cocktail Americano. The evolution saw gin replacing soda water.
Ingredients: 1oz Campari, 1oz gin, 1 oz sweet vermouth
How to mix: Put all ingredients into a shaker. Shake with cracked ice. Pour into
a chilled cocktail glass and decorate with orange peel.MARGARITA
A popular cocktail in
North America, it
combines the tang of lime
and the sweetness of
orange liqueur with tequila.
Ingredients: 2oz silver tequila,
1oz Cointreau,
1oz lime juice, coarse salt
How to mix: Get a chilled
cocktail glass, rub
its rim with lime
juice and dip it in
coarse salt. Next
add the ice, lime juice,
Cointreau and tequila into a shaker,
give it a good mix, and pour into
the glass over ice.