The Mysterious Cocktail 1934

I was looking through my grandma’s recipe box and found loads of interesting things: Three versions of Swedish Glog, Kitty’s friend from Bombay’s Salad, and this intriguing recipe for a long-lost cocktail. I give you: Cocktail 1934.

It has possibly been renamed a Hoar Frost, but I only found one source that confirms that title. Hoar Frost is also a scientific term that has to do with dew points and freezing temperatures and the North Pole and some other concepts I don’t understand with my tiny, shriveled, drunken brain.

This drink tastes pretty badass anyway. Kind of like a grapefruit and gin. And after you’ve had several, you may be tempted to say, “Fuck that sugar rim. I just wanna drink.” but DON’T DO IT. The sugar rim adds a great textural quality and the drink is really not the same without it.

Here’s the ingredients:

• 1/2 Jigger Gin
• 1/2 Jigger Orange Curacao
• 1/2 Jigger Lemon Juice
• 1/4 Jigger Jamaican Rum
• 1/4 Jigger Grenadine

Directions:

Shake all ingredients together with ice. Pour into cocktail glass that has lip rubbed with lemon or orange slice and dipped in granulated sugar.