Cocktail

See also: Cocktail (homonymy)

A cocktail is a drink receipt, made starting from various ingredients of nature.

The cocktails were spread at the end of the 18th century in England and with the the United States. Their dedication came during the Prohibition to the the United States in the Années 1920: the addition of another drink made it possible to mask the taste of an alcohol of Contrebande of bad quality.

Until the Years 1970, the cocktails were especially made containing gin, of Whiskey and Rhum, more rarely containing Vodka. At the beginning of the Years 1980, vodka is the most widespread base of the cocktails, often replacing the gin.

When the mixture of a cocktail is prepared and conditioned with a commercial aim, it can be subjected to a regulation. One will speak then about Prémix. The Mistelle S either are not cocktails.

Etymology

Several theories all, more or less plausible, are in string to explain the origin of the word “cocktail”. Some say that the habit wanted that one placed a feather (undoubtedly a feather of Coq) in a drink to be used as decoration and to indicate the presence of alcohol. It is also said that the English word would be a deformation of the French word “egg cup”, which would have been used as container to be used the cocktails for La Nouvelle-Orléans at the beginning of the 19th century. Some locate the origin of the word at the Mexico: Coctel was the name of a princess whose father manufactured mysterious mixtures… Boris Vian proposed the orthography coquetèle . According to another legend, the girl of an American innkeeper who, having lost his cock with the tail if coloured, offered a beverage to the man who found it and baptized this drink " cocktail? " (Tail of cock). Certain eccentric philologists go until imagining in this word, the deterioration of " Xochitl" , name of an alleged Aztec, creative princess of fabulous beverages.

Lastly, the last place the origin of the word in a context of charm and seduction. Indeed by tradition a cocktail is drunk only with the straw and is reserved for the fair sex, giving a spectacle leaving the imagination of the men thus has all the phantasms. By direct translation, " cock" wants to say " coq" and " tail" : " queue". Moreover, one cocktail without alcohol names Virgin Cocktail.

Vocabulary

The development of the cocktails has a vocabulary which is clean for him. Certain terms of English origin do not have French equivalents.

  • Blowtorch : tube out of plastic which makes it possible to aspire liquids. Synonym of the straw, the blowtorch slightly larger and is used for the cocktails.

  • To strike : to mix several ingredients in a shaker with Ice.
  • To frost glass : to soak the edge of glass in a saucer containing of the Syrup (mint, grenadine, strawberry, raspberry…) or of the lemon juice, then in a saucer containing of the Sugar out of powder or the salt.
  • Shaker : high surmounted goblet of a lid. The shaker has two principal functions: to mix, refresh and sometimes filter.
  • Tumbler : high glass. Higher than glass with Whiskey.
  • Sense of smell Bartending : art to juggle, whirl and play with the bottles, glasses, ice floes and other instruments of the bar to create a cocktail. Also called (Extreme Bartending) or (freestyle bartending).

Cocktails

See : Category: Cocktail

Presentation

The cocktail has a connotation enough " chic" and festive. They thus are generally been useful in beautiful glasses.
Ces last can be frosted or simply decorated small sunshades out of paper or of decorated Touillettes.

The mixture of alcohols and juice entering the receipt of certain cocktails makes it possible to obtain glasses made up of several " couches" colorées.
The know-how of the barman is thus essential to their preparation, this is why certain people, in particular the amateurs of Bartending Sense of smell, see Article there.

Literature and cocktails

Several writers devoted works to the cocktails, giving an inventory of receipts sometimes. Let us quote as follows:

  • Captain Cape , of Alphonse Allais, a catalog of cocktails where it recommends the Cosmolitan Claret Punch and the Brandy shanteralla .
  • Ernest Hemingway, where the cocktails are present in many works, and which even gave its name to the Hemingway Daïquiri , alternative of the mojito .
  • Sonatas of bar , of Herve Tellier, which offers nearly one hundred receipts in the form of a short news.

See too

  • List of the cocktails by type of alcohol

External bonds

Another direction

  • Navy: to strike a rope (listening, rope,…) => to fix it, moor it.
  • a Kingpin is a simple Arme flamer.

Simple: Cocktail

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