A pink lady is a classic gin-based cocktail with a long history. The egg-whites and cream mix creates a foam that floats on top of the drink and giving it a unique texture.

Due to its name, color, ingredients, and texture, the Pink Lady is traditionally a very feminine drink choice, colloquially known as a “girly drink.” Writer/bartender Jack Townsend speculated in his 1951 The Bartender’s Book that very non-threatening appearance of the Pink Lady may have appealed to women who did not have much experience with alcohol. Ironically, the Pink Lady is very dry by today’s standards, with its gin base and slight grenadine flavoring lacking the extreme fruit flavor or sweetness that modern drinkers associate with girly drinks.^[2] The plain taste of the drink reinforces Townsend’s hypothesis that this drink achieved its feminine reputation by way of appealing to women with little experience in drinking.

This drink was traditionally made with Plymouth gin which has a stronger flavor of herbs compared to the standard gin.

Ingredients:

• 4.5 cl (1.52 fluid onces) (one part) Gin
• 1 tsp. Grenadine
• 1 tsp. cream
• 1 egg white

Preparation:

Shake ingredients and strain into cocktail glass.

The Sazerac is one of the oldest known cocktails, with its origins in pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana. The original drink is based on a combination of Cognac and bitters created by Antoine Amédée Peychaud in the 1830s, and is reported to be the first cocktail ever invented in America. Since its creation, many different recipes have evolved for the drink, usually involving some combination of Cognac, rye whiskey, absinthe or Herbsaint and Peychaud’s Bitters.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 ounces (56.7 grams) Sazerac Rye whiskey
• Three dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
• One sugar cube or Simple Syrup
• 1/4 ounce (113.4 grams) Absinthe

Preparation:


One old fashioned glass is packed with ice. In a second old fashioned glass, a sugar cube and 3 dashes of Peychaud’s Bitters are muddled. The Rye Whiskey is then added to the sugar/Bitters mixture. The ice is emptied from the first old fashioned glass and the Absinthe is poured into the glass and swirled to coat the sides of the glass. Any excess Absinthe is discarded. The Rye-Sugar-Bitters mixture is then poured into the Absinthe coated glass and the glass is garnished with a lemon peel.