Recipes + Menus Archive
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Mulled Cider with Calvados
A drink made of apple juice and apple brandy and garnished with Granny Smith apple slices. If this doesn’t keep the doctor away....
February 1993
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Grasshopper Hot Chocolate
A hot version of a quintessentially fifties cocktail—for lovers of mint and chocolate.
January 1992
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Compound Fracture Punch
This punch has a lot of punch, though not, in our experience, enough to break a bone.
June 1991
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- summer,
- curacao,
- brandy,
- champagne
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Grapefruit Rum Coolers
A delicious mash-up of a Hemingway daiquiri and a mojito.
May 1995
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- spring,
- rum,
- beverages
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Lillet and Lemon Syrup Cocktails
Originally published as part of a Bastille Day cocktail party menu, this drink is too good to reserve for July 14.
July 1992
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- summer,
- lillet,
- beverages
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Jamaican Sorrel Rum Punch
Iced hibiscus-ginger tea made spirited with rum. You can almost hear the steel drums playing.
February 1993
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- winter,
- sorrel,
- rum
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Gimlet
“A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose’s Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.” Terry Lennox in The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler....
September 1993
- Keywords
- gourmet's favorite cocktails: 1941-2009,
- fall,
- gin,
- lime juice,
- beverages
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Champagne Punch
Though punches were a staple of the magazine for years, this recipe is unusual for two things: Chambord and ginger ale.
June 1992
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Star Anise Ice Cream
Star anise's licorice-like flavor is what sets this ice cream apart.
December 1993
- Keywords
- ice cream,
- dessert,
- dairy,
- summer,
- star anise


















