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3 Eyed Jakes Saloon
Your thirsty, it's 3am Holiday time.  You tip toe on down to the kitchen for a frosty mug o milk.  Flip on the lights and waht to your wandering eyes should appear? Why it's 3 eyed Jake, and he's looking for beer.  You don't have beer, and you for sure don't want this optical nightmare around when Santa shows up.  Well quick, get this weak eyed westerner a substitute favorite drink and he'll be on his way.
The Cowgirl Cocktail
  • 1/2 oz Brandy
  • 1/2 oz Creme de Casis
  • 1/2 oz heavy cream
    		•  Shake with crushed ice, strain into cocktail glass
    Hee Haw
  • 2 1/2 oz Gin
  • 1 oz Grenadine
  • 1 oz dry Vermouth
  • 3 Drops of Bitters
    		•  Shake well with crushed ice, strain into cocktail glass
    O.K. Corral Hot Spiced Wassail 
    (o.k. it's not western)
  • 3 Cinnamon sticks
  • 16 Whole Cloves
  • 1 tsp Allspice
  • 6 cups Apple Cider
  • 2 cups Cranberry juice cocktail
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 1/4 cup of Rum
  • 2 Oranges
    		•
    Break cinnamon in peices tie in cheesecloth bag along with cloves and allspice. 
    Combine apple cider, cranberry juice and sugar in saucepan, add bag of spices simmer 10 minutes, remove bag add rum, allow to warm, but do not boil. Pour in serving bowl with sliced oranges.
    Makes 2 1/2 quarts 
    Shoot Out Spiced Cider
  • 1 Gallon Apple Cider
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 2 tsp Whole Cloves
  • 1 Whole Nutmeg
  • 2 Cups Orange Juice
  • 1/2 cup Lemon juice
  • 3/4 cup Apple Brandy
    		•
    Combine cider and sugar in large pot. 
    Tie spices in cheesecloth bag, add to cider. 
    Bring to boil, reduce heat simmer 15 minutes, remove from heat add brandy.
    Makes 2 1/2 quarts 
    Buffalo Milk
  • 4 ponies of Brandy Sweet cider 
  • 1 teaspoon Bar sugar
  • Milk ! 
  • egg white 
  • half and half
  • dash each of: Orange clove Vanilla Cinnamon extract
    		•
    Beat egg white, shake with brandy and ice. 
    Strain, pour into Tom Collins glasses 
    fill with equal amounts of sweet cider,
    milk and half and half. ( 2 drinks )
    Madame Gertrudes Garter 
  • 2 oz Gin
  • 1/2 oz Grenadine
  • 1/2 oz Lemon juice
  • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
    		•
    Shake with ice then strain.
    Drop in one lump of ice,
    fill with seltzer and add lemon twist.
    House Raisin
    A house raisin' was just like a barn raisin' only fer a house. All the neighbor folk would get together to help another build a home. The men folk did the building while the women folk did the cooking. Except for this recipe that is. All the men drew straws for the job of making up the batch of House Raisin'. This recipe is for 50 drinks! 
  • 2 bottles White Rum
  • 3 quarts orange juice
  • 2 bottles Jamaica
  • 3 quarts lime juice
  • 1 bottle Demarara (150 proof)
  • 1 quart Grenadine
  • 2 bottles Curacao
  • 2 oz Pernod 
    		•
    Mix ingredients in either well or bathtub, over 100 lb. of ice.
    Cheyenne Warhoop
  • 1/4 oz Gin
  • 1/2 teaspoon powdered sugar
  • 1/4 oz lemon juice
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 oz orange juice
  • 1 teaspoon apricot brandy
  • 1/4 oz rye
    		•
    Shake with cracked ice then strain.
    Black Barts Bomb
  • 1/2 oz lemon juice
  • 1 dash grenadine
  • 1 oz good bourbon
    		•
    Shake with crushed ice, strain.
    Trade Wiskey
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 liter bourbon
  • 2 tablespoons cut tobacco
  • 4 small dried red peppers
    		•
    Make a tobacco tea by boiling water tobacco and peppers for 5 minutes, strain and add to wiskey to taste. The gunpowder is added last.
    The wiskey of the early west was both flavored and watered down a bit. This recipe originally called for 1/2 teaspoon black gunpowder in addition to the other ingredients listed....we do not think thats a good idea. If you simpley must do it, DO NOT use the modern highspeed powder it's poisonous!!!!!!!!
    Hail Storm Julip
    From the 1830's the earliest known mixed drink served in Colorado, from Bent's Fort. Originally made with Monongahela wiskey from Pittsburgh, or wheat wiskey from Taos.
  • 3 oz bourbon
  • 2 teaspoons powdered sugar
  • 2 sprigs of fresh mint leaves
    		•
    place crushed ice in pint size mason jar, add bourbon, 
    sugar and mint screw top in place, 
    shake at least 50 times...remove lid and drink from jar.
    Egg Wine
    O.K. this sounds gross, but it is a pioneer recipe.
    Vigorously beat 4 whole eggs plus the yolks of 4 more with 1/2 pound of fine sugar;
    next add 2 quarts of white wine and beat over moderate heat until rising, do not boil. 
    A Frontier German Drink
    To 100 parts of water add from 10 to 15 parts of sugar, dissolve and add to the syrup thus formed an aqueous extract of 0.8 parts of green or black tea. Add fresh beer or brewers yeast, put in a warm place and let ferment. When fermentation has progressed to a certian point the liquid is cleared, and then bottled, corked and the corks are tied down. 
    Santa Fe Gin Cocktail 
    United States Hotel 1848 
  • 3 oz gin
  • dash of bitters
  • 2 dashes maraschino liquer
  • 2 dashes white vermouth 
  • 2 small ice cubes
  • lemon slice for garnish


    • Stir all ingredients, strain, and serve with lemon slice 


    Cherry Bounce
  • 1 quart mashed cherries (including crushed stones)
  • 1 quart dark rum


    •           Combine ingredients, let stand for a week. Strain through fine cheesecloth and sweeten to taste with
              brown sugar. Store in closed container for a week before using.

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