Prince's Smile Cocktail

Just open a cocktail book and pick a page! Ta Da! The Savoy Cocktail Book gives us Prince's Smile Cocktail from 1934. I wish I knew the story behind this name.

Easy to make but I hate dashes. Just give me exact measurements! 

Yep, avoiding people and shops so I used bottled lemon juice. The bottle is not pretty enough to include. I'm sure fresh is better but bottled is easier.

Looks pretty! Smells nice and fruity.

Okay...not bad...not special though.

I made this because I had everything on hand and the name is intriguing however it is nothing special. Maybe fresh lemon juice or calvados might make it a little more exciting. If you have everything, give it a try but your not missing anything if you don't.

My Rating: Just okay. Don't know why the prince is smiling...

Star Cocktail No. 2

Well, not a lot people are wanting to be taste testers at the moment so I guess I'll have to stick to cocktails for the time being. I was just looking for something quick and refreshing that may go well with a bubble bath. The 1930's Savoy Cocktail Book gave me the Star Cocktail No. 2. The Star Cocktail No. 2 was too complex for this evening.

 Just two ingredients. It's going to be hard to mess this up! Luckily I had purchased a bottle of vermouth on my last shopping trip. I didn't have a cocktail in mind but I had seen it listed for several different ones so I picked it up.

I didn't have applejack but apple brandy is close. A quick online search and I discovered that Italian vermouth is sweet, red vermouth and French vermouth is dry, white vermouth. Further search revealed that vermouth is a type of fortified wine. So, this will be fun!

So easy and pretty and, most importantly, not pink! 

You could smell the sweetness as I mixed the drink. I didn't know what to expect but this was not it. Usually cocktails are very light but the vermouth made this one thick feeling. It tasted much more like a wine than a cocktail. With the apple it felt like a late summer drink. I could drink this under the fall foliage.

My Rating: Great if you have the ingredients but not too special.

Pink Lady

Time for a cocktail! Browsing through my 2 cocktail books I found the same cocktail done 2 different ways. I had to try and compare both! Let's go try the Pink Lady.

The recipe from The Savoy only has 3 ingredients. I'm a little concerned about the egg whites...

Stouffer's had a couple of more ingredients but still had that egg white.

They look exactly the same. So Pink!!

Savoy's:

Stouffer's:

Wow! These were 2 very different drinks! The Savoy's was terrible. Awful awful stuff! After one horrible sip I moved over to the Stouffer's which turned out great. I loved the fruit punch flavor! So I thought I would give the Savoy another chance but nope. Still bad.

My Rating: Stick with the Stouffer's