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Dating back to at least the 1900s, it was a non-alcoholic mixture of ginger ale, ice and lemon peel. [2] By the 1910s, brandy, or bourbon would be added for a "horse's neck with a kick" or a "stiff horse's neck."
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A smash is a casual icy julep (spirits, sugar, and herb) [32] cocktail filled with hunks of fresh fruit, so that after the liquid part of the drink has been consumed, one can also eat the alcohol-infused fruit (e.g. strawberries). The history of smashes goes back at least as far as the 1862 book How to Mix Drinks. [33]
As the name ‘old fashioned’ suggests, this whiskey cocktail is a classic cocktail.And for good reason. Made with just a few ingredients, an old fashioned is a balanced cocktail from the 1800s ...
With the cocktail renaissance in the 2000s, craft cocktail versions returned to the pre-Prohibition recipes, with only a lemon twist (or orange twist, or both, known as "rabbit ears"). By the 2020s, craft cocktail versions generally used sugar syrup, rather than solid sugar, due to better dissolving, consistency, and speed.
The number of drinks or ingredients in a cocktail can vary widely depending on the recipe. For example, a classic Martini consists of just two main ingredients: gin (or vodka) and vermouth.
Cocktail historian David Wondrich speculates that "cocktail" is a reference to gingering, a practice for perking up an old horse by means of a ginger suppository so that the animal would "cock its tail up and be frisky", [19] hence by extension a stimulating drink, like pick-me-up. This agrees with usage in early citations (1798: "'cock-tail ...
In most American oyster bars, cocktail sauce is the standard accompaniment for raw oysters and patrons at an oyster bar expect to be able to mix their own. The standard ingredients (in roughly decreasing proportion) are ketchup, horseradish, hot sauce (e.g., Tabasco , Louisiana , or Crystal ), Worcestershire sauce , and lemon juice .