welcome friends welcome back to
cocktails after dark today we're going
to do another cocktail out of this
little book that we've used before it is
called cocktails simply cocktails it is
by jimmy late of ceros in london and
this was published in 1930 this copy was
published in toronto
but it was published at the same time in
the united states so there are copies of
both floating around and this is in the
middle of prohibition
and this book we've talked about this
before it starts using something called
parts instead of ounces or jiggers it
sort of codifies the measurements in the
book to make it easier everything's a
ratio
and you know the author said that at the
beginning
that these ratios are so easy that even
a five-year-old could make the drinks
without asking daddy what size is a
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i don't think a five-year-old should
necessarily be drinking it's called the
canvas back
so we start out with three parts of
scotch whiskey and i'm to use this
dewers so
there's one and a half
oh no
three
we have two parts italian vermouth
one part dry gin
two parts lemon juice
this is even going to be big
for two cocktails now it says five
dashes of curacao per cocktail i'm
making two cocktails so that's ten
dashes
i don't really know how much a dash is
nobody does so i'm gonna say two
bar spoons of curacao is going to get us
there and then
10 dashes of angostura
seems like a lot
now we ice this off
and give it a shake
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now i've got a couple of cocktail
glasses iced
and
we'll double strain
the canvas back
hey glenn hey friends
that's a really big dream it is a really
big drink so um
it's in parts
and just to make it easy on myself i
said a part was an ounce that does make
the math easy it makes the math easy and
so i thought i'll just make two
cocktails make them exactly the same use
parts as an ounce there's a whole
section of toasts in the back of this
book
um i think we've read them before none
of them are appropriate no so
that's what i remember about that i'm
not appropriate
yes the two things i remember with this
book is one apparently your
five-year-old kid makes your drinks and
two
completely inappropriate toasts so
let's give the canvas back a try
that has a lot of flavor there's so many
flavors fighting for the top
okay so i got i get
smoky from the scotch that we used
definitely you can taste the scotch
it's got that high note
i get the lemon
definitely get the lemon
and then the orange
complement the orange lemon combo
yeah the curacao is in there a little
bit
the gin is i think completely lost to me
i can't decide if i
i'm fond of it or not
no but i want to take another drink i
know that's the thing that's that's
that's the part that's confusing right
it's like
it's interesting and i feel like that it
a slight tweak would make it really
great and what that is i'm not i'm not
yes i'm not sure either but for my
palette but it
it's interesting enough that you want to
taste it again
to say what is it about this that's
interesting
mhm okay so the canvas back from 1930.
um
i don't know
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