Hey, my mom used to make that!

Retro Happy Hour: Three cocktails made with chocolate mint cordial

Here are three 1970 cocktail recipes from Hiram Walker.

Misted Chocolate Mint

Pour Hiram Walker Chocolate Mint over crushed ice in a mist glass. Sip with a straw.

Italian Mousse 

Combine 1 1/4 oz. Hiram Walker Chocolate Mint, 1 oz. Hiram Walker's Vodka, 1/2 oz. cream. Shake with cracked ice and serve in a champagne saucer. Garnish with grated chocolate.

Ski Lift

Combine in a mug 1 1/2 oz. Hiram Walker Chocolate Mint and 6 oz. hot chocolate made with milk and unsweetened chocolate. Top with whipped cream. Garnish with grated chocolate and use candy cane as stirrer. (This is really a cold-weather cocktail. I'll remind you of it come winter.)

Click here to see the 1979 cocktail recipe from Hiram Walker.

Retro Happy Hour: Blackberry Sour

Today's cocktail comes from this 1979 ad.

Leroux Blackberry Sour

Mix 3/4 oz. lemon or lime juice, 1 1/2 oz. Leroux Blackberry Flavored Brandy, 1 tsp. sugar. Shake, strain, garnish with orange slice, cherry.

Click here to learn how to make a Pomegranate Key Lime Vodka cocktail

Retro Cinco de Mayo

This gorgeous 1968 ad claims that Jose Cuervo created the Margarita, though Wikipedia says no one knows for sure the origin of the cocktail.

Margarita

Mix 1 1/2 oz. Jose Cuervo Tequila with 1/2 oz. Triple Sec, 1 oz. fresh lime or lemon juice. Shake with shaved ice. Serve in salt-rimmed glass.

Click here for Jose Cuervo's retro recipe for tacos.

Retro Happy Hour: Whiskey Sour

Today's cocktail recipe comes from this 1979 ad.

Add 1 1/2 oz. Seagram's 7 to the juice of one lemon and one tsp. extra fine sugar. Shake, strain over ice and garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

Click here for another retro cocktail with whiskey.

Retro Happy Hour: Boozy Fruit

Today, we're eating our cocktail. Or cocktails? 

This 1948 ad suggests you simply pour Cointreau over fruit — fresh or canned — and serve.

Click here for another fruity idea from Cointreau.

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Retro Happy Hour: Whiskey Flip

This cocktail includes cream, egg and a sprinkling of nutmeg, so if you like egg nog this is worth a try.

Alas, I don't drink egg nog and the thought of a raw egg in my cocktail kind of grosses me out. Remember, I'm weird about eggs.

1 egg
1 tsp. powdered sugar
1 jigger Kinsey Whiskey
2 tsp. cream

Shake well with cracked ice and strain into cocktail glass. Sprinkly grated nutmeg on top. 

This recipe comes from a Kinsey Whiskey/Gin booklet from the 1950s.

Click here for another retro cocktail recipe from the same booklet.

 

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Retro Happy Hour: Key Party Punch from the 1970s

Alright, nowhere in this 1970s booklet of punch recipes does Anchor Hocking suggest you have a key party, but they were popular in the 1970s. Or so Hollywood would have us think (e.g. The Ice Storm).

And look at the couples on the booklet cover. They look like a swinging bunch to me.

Strawberry Punch

1 qt. strawberries
1 1/4 cups sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 pt. ginger ale
2 bottles dry white wine

Put strawberries in a bowl with sugar and lemon juice and chill for several hours. When ready to serve, put berries in punch bowl and add the remaining liquids and ice. 

Click here for a 1970s recipe for boozy dessert.

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Retro Happy Hour: Whiskey Daisy

This recipe comes from a Kinsey Whiskey/Gin booklet from the 1950s.

1 jigger Kinsey Whiskey
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tsp. Grenadine 
1/2 tsp. powdered sugar

Shake well with cracked ice and strain into mug or 8 oz. glass. Add cube of ice and decorate with fruit. 

 

 Click here for another retro cocktail recipe.

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Retro Happy Hour: The Comfort 'n Tonic

Today, we're taking a break from Easter hams with this drink recipe from a 1961 Southern Comfort booklet.

To make a Comfort 'n Tonic, squeeze lime over ice cubes in 8-oz. glass, add Southern Comfort, fill with tonic, then stir well.

Click here for a couple of retro cocktail recipes from 1957.


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Retro Happy Hour: Hot and Cold Toddies

Though today's recipes come from a 1950s booklet published by Corby's whiskey, toddies have been around for more than 300 years. According to Wikipedia, toddies were once thought to relieve the symptoms of colds and flu.

Cold Toddy

1/2 tsp. sugar
Dash of water
JIgger of water
1 1/2 oz. whiskey

Dissolve sugar in dash of water in bottom of chilled Old Fashioned glass. Partially fill with ice cubes. Pour over whiskey, add jigger of water and stir gently. Top off with a twist of lemon peel.

Hot Toddy

1 lump sugar
Boiling water
1 1/2 oz. whiskey

Put lump of sugar into hot Old Fashioned glass and fill with two-thirds of boiling water. Add Whiskey. Stir and top with twist of lemon peel. A little nutmeg may be grated on top if desired.

Click here for another hot whiskey drink recipe.

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