Let's Have a Drink

While it's tax day, it's also Friday. That means, it's time for the weekend! We've got lots going on, including a road trip to celebrate a friend's 30 birthday. 

Many of our friends have retro bars, whether an actual bar or a Trav-L bar matters not. We're pretty much guaranteed our parties will have yesteryear flair. To match the look, here are over a dozen drink recipes from the 1950s and 1960s, courtesy of the bar accessories I featured Tuesday. 

I'm thinking of trying a Side Car or a White Lady the next time I'm all dolled up. What's your poison?

Alexander

• 1/3 Dry Gin
• 1/3 Creme de Cacao
• 1/3 Sweet Cream
• Shake well with ice, strain, and serve.

Bacardi

• 1 Dash Grenadine
• 1/4 Lemon Juice
• 1/4 Gin
• 1/2 Bacardi Rum

Bronx - Version 1

• 1/3 Gin
• 1/3 Italian Vermouth
• 1/3 Orange Juice

Bronx - Version 2

• 1/2 Dry Gin
• 1/6 French Vermouth
• 1/6 Italian Vermouth
• 1/6 Orange Juice
• Shake with ice, strain, and serve.

Champagne Cocktail

• Ice cube soaked with Angostura bitters
• Squeeze two lemon peels
• Iced champagne

Clover Club

• 1/2 Gin
• 1/4 French Vermouth
• 3 Dashes of Grenadine
• 1/6 Lemon Juice
• 1 white of an Egg

Daiquri

• 1 1/2 jager Rum
• Juice of 1 Lime
• 1/2 teaspoon Powdered Sugar
• Shake well with ice, strain, and serve.

Dubonnet

• 1 Dry Gin
• 1 Dubonnet
• 1 Orange Juice
• Shake with cracked ice, strain, and serve.

Eye Opener

• Yolk of an Egg
• 1 teaspoon Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Anisette
• 1 part Rum
• Large Glass

Gin and It

• 1/3 Italian Vermouth
• 2/3 Dry Gin

Manhattan

• 2/3 Canadian Club Whisky
• 1/3 Italian Vermouth
• 1 Dash Angostura Bitters
• Stir with Cracked Ice, strain, and serve with a Cherry.

Old Fashioned - Version 1

• 1 teaspoon Sugar
• 4 Dashes Angostura Bitters
• Rye Whisky
• Ice & Fresh Water
• Serve with an orange slice and a cherry.

Old Fashioned - Version 2

• 1 jager Liquor
• 2-3 Dashes Angostura Bitters
• Sugar & a little soda
• Stir well, and serve with an orange slice and a cherry.

Dry Martini - Version 1

• 1/3 French Vermouth
• 2/3 Gordon Gin

Dry Martini - Version 2

• 2/3 Dry Gin
• 1/3 French Vermouth
• Dash Orange Bitters
• Stir with cracked ice; serve with olive.

Side Car

• 1/3 Lemon Juice
• 1/3 Cognac Brandy
• 1/3 Cointreau
• Shake well with ice, strain, and serve.

Tom Collins

• 1 Part Lemon Juice
• 2 teaspoons Sugar
• 1 Part Gin
• Fill with Soda and Ice

Tomato Cocktail

• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 teaspoon Lemon Juice
• Tomato Juice

Whiskey Sour

• 2 oz Whiskey
• 1 teaspoon powdered sugar
• Juice 1/2 lemon and 1/2 lime, shake with cracked ice, strain, and serve.

White Lady

• 1/3 Lemon Juice
• 1/3 Cointreau
• 1/3 Gin