welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark today we're going
to do another recipe out of this cocktail
guide the 1937 cafe royale this was a cocktail book
with only one printing in 1937 around the time of the
coronation so it is the coronation edition even though there was
only one edition it's a bunch of recipes that were
compiled by a bartender called w.j tarling and he went around to bartenders
around the uk and sort of got all of their recipes
went through them figured out which ones he liked which ones he didn't
and then put them in here so some of them are his recipes some recipes
have no mention of where they came from at all
and other ones are given specifically to other bartenders
and that's one of the recipes we're going to do today it is godfrey's
corpse reviver and it says here that it was invented by
godfrey beldini and it is a gin and vodka drink and i've chosen it
because it has vodka so i'm going to use my favorite gin
first off which is this the dylan's gin and i need four
ounces and i don't know that i have four ounces i'm almost
out it might be time for a new favorite gin
let's see
just of course i spilled some so i might not have gotten
the full four ounces but we're close enough vodka
very difficult to find vodka recipes in this time period uh in the late 1930s
except for in these english cocktail books and a
couple in the french cocktail books this cocktail book continually asks for
a rye based vodka so this vodka from spirit of york made
here in toronto is a rye based vodka so i'm going to put
in a couple ounces of that and see how we make out next is a dash
but because i'm making two cocktails two dashes of grenadine
which is always my downfall let's see oh i'm getting better
a couple dashes of angostura now we ice this down and we shake it and
then we're going to talk about what is a corpse reviver
and the glasses are ice
godfrey's corp survivor not to be confused with
all of the other corps survivors in all of the other cooking
reviving corpses today hi friends so even within this cocktail book there
are a couple of corpse reviver cocktails
with completely different mixes and it's not like tiny little changes on the same
idea like some of them are completely
different i am sure though that they're all
based on their title meant to be either something that
uh brings back the dead or is a hangover cure hangover cure yeah
would be my guess those are kind of those things that that though
that title suggests yeah i mean so in the savoy book there's a bunch of them
and they're vermouth and brandy um this one
is lemon quinolet cuantro gin and absinthe oh they've got two
and you said this one had a second one this one has a second one too so let's
see yeah there you go of course of course
survivor brandy orange juice lemon juice grenadine which is different than what's
in this book yeah so i mean you call it a corpse survivor
it's stiff uh and in some instances it's not
necessarily just stiff but that keenan lalay would be really bitter
which would then supposed to make you like yeah
wave action yeah being a regular so let's give this a go and i used a um
i used a rye vodka
oh i kind of like that so i used a rye vodka and a rye gin
okay i want to try the right vodka without the um
i'm looking for something appropriate to just give it a quick
a quick taste because that's got a distinct rye flavor to it that
i really like for the last i don't know how many years
vodka sold in canada and the united states had to be
a clear flavorless liquid that's recently changed
it can now have distinctive flavor and in the 1930s when these books were
published specifically this one it asks for
vodkas made from potato made from rye made from different types of grains okay
and i have to imagine it would have brought different flavors
to it so you're telling me this one should have no flavor
um this is potato it will have flavor so these are both flavored then yeah
not flavored no they haven't been they haven't been stripped of their flavor
which would make them probably more in line with what would be used in the
1930s okay and you may have said that and i was
just so fascinated with the flavor i was drinking
well that's yes i like that rye that's completely
different
oh you drained it [Laughter]
the potato vodka is more to me more viscous
yeah there's there's more mouth feel to that vodka
but it has a very it has a flavor to it yeah that one has a very distinct
and so that must be i'm just trying to relate it back to this now
so everything that you thought you knew about vodka from the last
i don't know 35 or 40 years it's about to change my friends
either is about to change or has changed yeah depending on
how adventurous you've been with your vodka drinking yeah so there's probably
a lot of small produ these are both small local producers of vodka
who are doing something a little bit different
so i happen to really like the flavor of rice so i'm really enjoying this
particular drink a lot um whether i need it for the
as a as a corp survivor i don't know this
gets um this gets two thumbs up from us i think it's really great and again play
with the rye now you can play with the vodka and you
can get completely different feels to this problem
there's just so many options i i can only imagine
how i mean you've got gin and you've got vodka both of which
just in their natural forms now have so many flavors
you could make so many different versions of just this drink
probably go all year yeah okay that's a different project for a different time
and we're out of dylan's gin so now i need a new favorite gin
i'm sure i'm sure we can find out thanks for stopping by
see you again soon
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