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. I guess it was some kinda winning cocktail in some kinda cocktail competition in 1934. No surprise there. It’s damn good, and it’s almost 100% booze.
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. Kind of like pink lemonade. 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. AND… chill the glass, too since you don’t serve this drink over ice.
Also, FYI, a “jigger” equals 1.5 ounces so half a jigger is 3/4 ounce in case you’re bad at fractions. And 1/4 jigger is less than that; clearly I am bad at fractions.
| The Mysterious Cocktail 1934 |
- 1/2 Jigger Gin
- 1/2 Jigger Orange Curacao
- 1/2 Jigger Lemon Juice
- 1/4 Jigger Jamaican Rum
- 1/4 Jigger Grenadine
- Run a lemon or orange slice around the rim of a cocktail glass and dip in sugar. Set aside in the refrigerator.
- Shake all ingredients together with ice.
- Pour into cocktail glass and serve.
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