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H HopeChest Member East Bay, CA Joined: Oct 19, 2015 Posts: 508	H HopeChest Posted posted on Thu, May 30, 2019 11:25 AM On 2019-05-27 21:21, Bam Bam wrote: Burke's Complete Cocktail and Tastybite Recipes (1936) This is an awesome little black book, packed with well-organized and well-written recipes for prohibition and pre-prohibtion-era cocktails (and hors d'oeuvres! Man, did Mr. Burke ever have a thing for anchovies...) Given the date, I didn't expect to find much in a tropical vein, but was surprised with a pair on page 88; the Honolulu and the Hula Hula - both based on gin of all things. The Honolulu Cocktail is so, so good. It was a signature cocktail at the Brown Derby in the 1930s. I like to think of the Royal Hawaiian Cocktail as the evolution of the Honolulu Cocktail, dropping the orange juice and sugar and adding orgeat.

On 2019-05-27 21:21, Bam Bam wrote:

Burke's Complete Cocktail and Tastybite Recipes (1936)

This is an awesome little black book, packed with well-organized and well-written recipes for prohibition and pre-prohibtion-era cocktails (and hors d'oeuvres! Man, did Mr. Burke ever have a thing for anchovies...) Given the date, I didn't expect to find much in a tropical vein, but was surprised with a pair on page 88; the Honolulu and the Hula Hula - both based on gin of all things.

The Honolulu Cocktail is so, so good. It was a signature cocktail at the Brown Derby in the 1930s. I like to think of the Royal Hawaiian Cocktail as the evolution of the Honolulu Cocktail, dropping the orange juice and sugar and adding orgeat.

Post #795431 by HopeChest on Thu, May 30, 2019 11:25 AM