Maidens prayer drink recipe how to make the perfect. How to mix this cocktail fill a shaker with ice cubes. This drink also replaces some of the lemon juice with. This book is a toboggan ride through the history of the cocktail. This recipe is more balanced and drinkable, albeit less alcoholic, and the addition of. The maidens prayer is essentially a gin sour, with cointreau replacing the simple syrup or. Esquires drinks database contains hundreds of cocktail recipes, curated and annotated by the noted drinks historian and scholar, david wondrich. Adapted from a recipe in harry craddocks 1930 the savoy cocktail book.
Hawaiian tomato cocktail a refreshing befurc dinner i. Maidens prayer published in savoy cocktail book from the 1930s this cocktail will make you rethink how you feel about gin if you dont think you like it. This recipe is adapted from a version that appeared in savoy cocktail book from the 1930s, with the gin bumped up and the cointreau knocked. Relatively few country singers have covered maidens prayer with vocals, but they include ray price on his tribute album san antonio rose 1962 and willie nelson on his album red headed stranger on the 2000 cd reissue but not the 1975 lp. Packed with wonderful facts and nuggets at every turn. Ingredients 3 parts gin 3 parts tequila blanco 1 part lemon juice 1 part. Maidens prayer cocktail the kitchen magpie cocktails. For a more precise definition of the words found in this book, a slang dictionary should be. Refreshing and tasty this cocktail owes it terrible name to the reason it is not more popular. Between the sheets or maidens prayer cocktail recipe. The maidens prayer cocktail the maiden s prayer is essentially a gin sour, with cointreau replacing the simple syrup or sugar thats found in most sours such as the whiskey sour. The random house thesaurus of slang slang dictionary free. So, asked mrs k r, any special history about this cocktail. The maidens prayer is variously known as an alternate name for the between the sheets.
The savoy version suggests 18 lemon juice, 18 orange juice, 38. In a sense, i wanted a book that translated english into slang, at that time, there. Maidens prayer drink recipe how to make the perfect maidens. Cocktail recipe for between the sheets or maidens prayer, a popular brandy and light rum mixed drink made with triple sec and lemon juice. Onl ul these days i am going to write a book and call it mo place for a woman. Sharing a name with a 19thcentury paean to virginal purity later arranged into western swing and made famous by bob wills, the maidens prayer may have acquired its moniker from a bartender with a sense of humor. Shake well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. The maidens prayer cocktail, a gin, orange juice and lemon juice cocktail that was very popular back in the day. As for this recipe, we found it in the savoy cocktail book from the 1930s. Similar to between the sheets it is a cocktail you can play with and make your own.
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