Favorite Film Cocktail

The Big Lebowski (1998) dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

The "other" Lebowski's favourite tipple.

The White Russian is a simple, three-part cocktail combining vodka, cream and Kahlúa, a coffee liqueur that's made with rum, sugar and arabica coffee.

1 1/2 ounces gin
1/2 ounce dry vermouth
Garnish: Spanish olive (no pimento)

And that's all you need to make a Nick and Nora Martini, Nick and Nora shake their Martinis.

Nick even gives a bartender a lesson when we first see him in The Thin Man 1934, "The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a Dry Martini you always shake to waltz time".

Katharine Hepburn's "five o'clock daiquiri" ub SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER would be just the thing to celebrate having your inconveniently garrulous relatives lobotomised!  




From Liquor.com website


The Daiquiri was supposedly invented in 1898 in the eponymous mining town of Daiquiri on the southeastern tip of Cuba by an American mining engineer named Jennings Cox. It was introduced in the United States a decade later, when a U.S. Navy medical officer brought the recipe from Cuba to Washington, D.C.





This three-ingredient gift has pleased millions of palates over the ensuing years, including household names like Ernest Hemingway and President JFK. Yet no drink has suffered more abuse than the Daiquiri. In the century-plus since its inception, the granddaddy of rum cocktails has gone from the pride of Havana to an unloved extra on the back of a Señor Frog’s table tent. Even today, as the craft cocktail movement reaches full tilt, most people too often associate the Daiquiri with neon-colored adult slushies, the stuff of spring-break blackouts and mind-splitting hangovers.



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But in its purest form, the Daiquiri is simple and sublime, a delicate blend of rum’s sweetness with the raw freshness of sugar and lime juice. Whole lives have been dedicated to balancing those three elements. That each ingredient should be of the highest quality goes without saying, though even then the Daiquiri can throw you a curve. Choose an overly sweet rum or use too much sugar, and you’re left sipping liquid candy; overdo the citrus, and the cocktail drowns in a puckering pool of acidity.





This recipe walks the knife edge with a mix of light rum and a darker demerara sugar syrup. The two accentuate the best qualities in each other and pair perfectly with the fresh lime juice. One trick when juicing the limes: Use a hand-squeezer (or your own hands). The oils from the rind add an extra flash of intensity that gives the cocktail a nice, bright edge.






Ingredients

2 ounces light rum

1 ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed

3/4 ounce demerara sugar syrup

Garnish: lime twist

Steps

Add the rum, lime juice and demerara sugar syrup to a shaker with ice, and shake until well-chilled.



Strain into a chilled coupe.



Garnish with a lime twist.

The Seven Year Itch:

The Girl (Marilyn Monroe): "Do you have gin?"

Richard (Tom Ewell): "Yes, I do."

The Girl: "How do you drink gin? Gin and Soda?"

Richard: "Well, there's gin and tonic. And, there's gin and Vermouth ... that's a Martini."

The Girl: "Oh, that (Martini) sounds good. I'd like one of those. A big, tall one!"

How I wish your tantalizing thread had come during my youth when I swaggered up to the bar like John Wayne off the dusty trail and ordered, "Whiskey."

I would really like to sample all those civilized concoctions submitted by everyone, but I'm in my twilight years and long off the booze.

Anyone know where I can pick up a cheap Time Machine for a quick trip back to my hellion past?

William Bendix makes it a simple cocktail recipe when ordering in THE BLUE DAHLIA:

"Bourbon, Straight --- with a Bourbon Chaser!"

While were on the subject, Mr BOND-ING TOGETHER QM, trivia question:  Who hands Bond a martini and says, "That's stirred, not shaken.  That was right, wasn't it?"