When used to refer any generic alcoholic beverages, cocktails can mean any drink containing three or more ingredients if at least one of these ingredients contains alcohol.
Video Cocktail
More specific cocktails may mean drinks with at least three flavors, one of which is alcohol. More specifically, it should contain alcohol, sugar, and bitter/orange. When mixed drinks contain only distilled spirits and mixers, such as soda or fruit juice, it is a high ball; many of the Official Cocktails of the International Association of Bartenders are highballs. When mixed drinks contain only distilled spirits and liquor, it is a duo and when adding a mixer, it is a trio. Additional ingredients may be sugar, honey, milk, cream, and various herbs.
Maps Cocktail
Etymology
The origin of the word cocktail is disputed. The first recorded use of cocktail not referring to horses was found at The Morning Post and Gazetteer in London, England, March 20, 1798:
Oxford English Dictionary cites words from the United States The first recorded use of cocktails as a possible (non-alcoholic) beverage in the United States appears in the Farmer's Cabinet , April 28, 1803:
Drink a glass of cocktail - very good to head... Call in Doct's. finds Burnham - he looks very wise - drinks another cocktail.
The first definition of cocktail known as alcoholic beverages appeared in The Balance and Columbian Repository (Hudson, New York) May 13, 1806; editor Harry Croswell answered the question, "What is a cocktail?":
Cock-tail is a stimulating liquor, consisting of any kind of spirit, sugar, water, and bitterness - it is vulgarly called bitter sling , and should be an election herb which is very good, as much as it makes the heart dashing and brave, at the same time darkening the head. It is said, it is also very beneficial for a democratic candidate: because someone, after swallowing a glass, is ready to swallow anything.
Etymologist Anatoly Liberman supports as "quite possibly" the theory put forward by LÃÆ'  ¥ ftman (1946), which Liberman summarizes as follows:
It is a habit to embed an impure ponytail... They are called costumed horse , then just cocktail . With the extension, the word cocktail is applied to a vulgar person, who grew up on his post, assuming a male but less polite posture.... The important [in quotation 1806 above] is... the mention of water as material.... LÃÆ'  ¥ ftman concludes that a cocktail is an acceptable alcoholic drink, but diluted, not a "pure race", something "lifted above the station". Hence the very precise slang used earlier about the inferior horse and the respectable gentleman.
In his book Imbibe! David Wondrich also speculates that the cocktail is a reference to practice to encourage older horses using ginger suppositories so that the animal will "stick its tail and become agile."
Some authors have theorized that a cocktail might be a chicken ale vortex .
Development
There is no clarity about the origin of the cocktail. Traditional cocktails are a mixture of spirits, sugars, water, and bitter. But in the 1860s, cocktails often included liquor.
The first publication of the bartender's guide including cocktail recipes was in 1862 - How to Mix Drink; or, The Bon Vivant's Companion , by "Professor" Jerry Thomas. In addition to recipes for punches, sours, sling, cobbler, bush, toddies, flips, and other mixed drinks are 10 recipes for "cocktails". The main ingredient that distinguishes cocktails from other beverages in this summary is the bitter use. Current popular mixed drinks that match the original meaning of this "cocktail" include an Old Fashioned whiskey cocktail, a Sazerac cocktail, and a Manhattan cocktail.
The listed ingredients (spirits, sugars, water and bitter) match the ingredients of Old Fashioned, derived as a term used by 19th century bar diners to distinguish cocktails that make the "old-fashioned" way of cocktails which is newer and more complex..
The term highball emerged during the 1890s to distinguish drinks consisting only of distilled spirits and mixers.
The first "cocktail party" ever summoned by Ny. Julius S. Walsh Jr. from St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1917. Ny. Walsh invited 50 guests to his house at noon on a Sunday. The party lasts an hour, until lunch is served at 1 pm. The site of this first cocktail party still stands. In 1924, the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Louis bought Walsh's house at 4510 Lindell Boulevard, and has since been the residence of the local archbishop.
During the Prohibition in the United States (1919-1933), when alcoholic beverages were illegal, cocktails were still illegally consumed in companies known as speakeasies. The quality of liquor available during Prohibition is much worse than before. There is a shift from whiskey to gin, which does not require aging and is therefore easier to produce illegally. Honey, fruit juice, and other flavors are served to mask the foul taste of the lower liquor. Sweet cocktails are easier to drink quickly, an important consideration when its formation may be invaded at any time.
Cocktails became less popular in the late 1960s and up to the 1970s, until bounced back in the 1980s with vodka often replacing the original gin in drinks like martinis. Traditional cocktails began making comebacks in the 2000s, and by the mid-2000s there was a cultural revival of cocktails in a style usually referred to as a mixture that refers to traditional cocktails for inspiration but uses new materials and often complex flavors.
See also
- William "Cocktail" Boothby, an early cocktail recipe publisher in San Francisco
List
- Cocktail list
- IBA Official Cocktail
- List of duo and cocktail trio
- List of drinks
- Crossovers
Devices to produce and absorb
- Cocktail glass
- Cocktail party
- Cocktail shaker
- Fine Mixing Drink - A classic cocktail book
Media
- Cocktail (movie 1988)
- Cocktail (movie 2010)
- Cocktail (movie 2012)
References
External links
- Media related to Cocktail (category) on Wikimedia Commons
- Wikibooks Cookbook
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments