Best Prince Of Wales Cocktail Recipes

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PRINCE OF WALES



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More interesting than a Classic Champagne Cocktail.

Provided by Simon Difford

Categories     Drink

Time 2m

Yield 1

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 Demerara / dark Muscovado / brown sugar
2 Angostura or other aromatic bitters
15 ml Cognac (brandy)
15 ml Grand Marnier liqueur
Champagne Brut

Steps:

  • RUB sugar cube with lemon zest, coat with dashes of bitters and drop cube into chilled glass
  • POUR chilled cognac and liqueur over soaked cube and TOP with chilled champagne

Nutrition Facts : Calories 73 calories

PRINCE OF WALES' COCKTAIL RECIPE



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THE cocktail is "essentially an American contraption," writes David Wondrich in "Imbibe!," his new history/celebration of 19th century mixology: "How could it be anything but? It's quick, direct and vigorous. It's flashy and a little bit vulgar. It induces an unreflective overconfidence. It's democratic, forcing the finest liquors to rub elbows with ingredients of far more humble stamp. It's profligate with natural resources (think of all the electricity generated to make ice that gets used for 10 seconds and discarded)."In short, it rocks."The hero of Wondrich's book is "Professor" Jerry Thomas, author of "How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon Vivant's Guide" (1862), the first published bartender's manual. Thomas invented a number of cocktails, including the Tom and Jerry, which he named after himself (or perhaps, as he sometimes claimed, after his two pet rats). In his day, he was most famous for the Blue Blazer, which was mixed by tossing burning whiskey from one glass to another, preferably with the lights turned low. He published the first recipe for a gin fizz and the first cocktail recipe calling for a twist of lemon instead of the grated nutmeg of earlier times.As Wondrich points out, the cocktail was the first American cultural product to impress the world. In the 1830s, having previously made little besides English-style punch, hot toddies and some rustic concoctions of rum or applejack, American bartenders suddenly showed a huge burst of creativity when ice became widely available. Wondrich calls the period from 1830 to 1885 the baroque era of the cocktail, when elaborate fruit garnishes and flamboyant showmanship were all.--A dandy and gamblerThomas was a larger-than-life character. At various periods of his life a sailor, Gold Rush miner, Broadway dandy, art collector and gambler as well as a celebrity mixologist, Thomas plied his trade in New York, New Orleans, Chicago and up and down California and the Mississippi River -- anywhere there was a big thirst. He was the leading bartender of the Civil War type, which, as a newspaper later recalled, "with his pomade-plastered hair, his alleged diamonds, his loud oaths and his general aspect of bravado, was a sort of a cross between a dandy and a highwayman." The difference was that Thomas always sported real diamond rings and stickpins."How to Mix Drinks" has been reprinted many times, and you can even read the text online at www.theartofdrink.com/book. Wondrich concentrates on Thomas' recipes but features other prominent bartenders of the era as well. In some cases, he says, it's because he prefers their versions of a cocktail to Thomas'.In others, he's obviously just fascinated by the way odd-sounding old recipes can turn out to be delicious. He describes William Schmidt's Weeper's Joy (absinthe, vermouth, kummel, sugar syrup and curacao) as "a drink that looks like a train wreck on the page but tastes like an angel's tears."But there's another reason for including these other mixologists. "Imbibe!" aims to re-create the whole world of 19th century cocktails, from the punch-bowl era down to the post-1885 craving for classicism, which meant smaller drinks without the complicated garnishes and show-offy presentation of mid-century, accompanied by a new taste for elegant dryness (dry gin, dry rum, dry Champagne).Wondrich is keenly interested in re-creating the exact flavor of American cocktails at the time when they were conquering the world.So he urges the reader to use Demarara sugar for syrup because perfectly white sugar was rare back them. Eggs should be small (there were no jumbo eggs) and ice should be shaved or hand-cracked. Wondrich suggestsGrand Marnier as an alternative tocuracao and Dutch gin rather than dry London gin, and he proposes pink Zinfandel as a substitute for Catawba, a practically extinct East Coast wine.This is admirable -- details make all the difference. Perhaps this book will persuade people to go out and make their own authentic maraschino cherries by soaking sour cherries in Maraschino liqueur.--Clearing up mysteriesThere's an appendix of recipes for various 19th century bitters, some of which turn out not to be exactly replicable because they call for snakeroot, which is, you know, poisonous. Before that comes a selection of 16 newly created drinks by present-day bartenders. They're a mixed bag and seem kind of tacked on, though maybe Wondrich is giving us a lesson here -- if the Weeper's Joy is really wonderful, maybe a cocktail that calls for horseradish-infused vodka or an El Bulli-type foam of Campari and rosehip jam is wonderful too.Those modern recipes aside, this book is a model of food history writing. Wondrich is knowledgeable, and he's intent on clearing up various mysteries about the history of the cocktail. Sometimes, with his detailed notes about forgotten techniques and mysterious ingredients, he skirts close to the obsessive, but he's always an enjoyable writer, curious, eager, mildly opinionated and with a taste for the amusing.

Provided by Charles Perry

Categories     DRINKS

Time 8m

Yield Serves 1

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 teaspoon powdered sugar, or to taste
Dash Angostura bitters
1 1/2 ounces rye whiskey
1/4 teaspoon Maraschino liqueur
Small square of pineapple (1-inch square by 1/2 -inch thick)
1 ounce brut Champagne
Strip of lemon zest

Steps:

  • Put the sugar in a mixing glass with the bitters and one-half teaspoon water. Stir briefly until it has dissolved. Add the rye, the maraschino and pineapple chunk. Fill two-thirds full of cracked ice and shake vigorously to crush the pineapple. Strain into a chilled martini glass; add the cold Champagne. Garnish with a twist of lemon zest. Serve immediately.

PRINCE OF WALES COCKTAIL



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I saw this cocktail listed on an old speakeasy menu on Ken Burn's documentary "Prohibition". I decided to research it. There are various versions of the recipe. It was named for His Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the son of Queen Victoria.

Provided by Hootenanny

Categories     Beverages

Time 5m

Yield 1 cocktail, 1 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 teaspoon sugar
1 dash bitters
1 splash water
1 1/2 ounces rye whiskey
1/4 teaspoon maraschino juice or 1/4 teaspoon cherry flavored liqueur
2 -3 pineapple chunks
lemon zest
1 1/2 ounces champagne, chilled or 1 1/2 ounces sparkling wine
1 lemon twist, for garnish

Steps:

  • In a mixing glass dissolve sugar in bitters and a splash of water.
  • Add rye whiskey, maraschino cherry juice or liqueur, pineapple chunks, and lemon zest.
  • Fill with a generous amount of ice.
  • Cover and shake vigorously to crush pineapple.
  • Strain into a cocktail glass.
  • Add champagne and garnish with lemon twist.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 156.7, Sodium 2.2, Carbohydrate 5.4, Sugar 4.7

PRINCE OF WALES COCKTAIL



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This cocktail is said to have been composed by Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). There are several variations but they always involve champagne. Cheers! Note: you may garnish this drink with a lemon twist to make it even fancier.

Provided by Kathy D @LifeIsGoodkd

Categories     Cocktails

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 - inch cube of pineapple
1 1/2 ounce(s) rye whiskey
2 dash(es) maraschino liqueur
2 dash(es) bitters
1 teaspoon(s) powdered sugar
- brut champagne

Steps:

  • 1. Muddle the pineapple, whiskey, maraschino liqueur, bitters, and powdered sugar in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add some ice and then shake it all up.
  • 2. Strain the mixture into a martini glass or champagne flute and then top the drink off with champagne. Cheers!

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