The Hallowtini, inspired by the 1978 classic “Halloween”
… and just as campily perfect for the season:
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and top off with candy corn garnish.
Although all are inspired by the 1960 Hitchcock classic “Psycho”, this is one of the many cocktails which means different things to different people:
1) The Classic Psycho
Mix well in a shaker, strain into a cocktail or low-ball glass and garnish with a pineapple chunk, orange slice and maraschino cherry.
2) The Icewine-Psycho
“I was inspired by the movie’s sweet and sour moments, as Mr. Bates seems to be a sweet charming man but is actually quite spooky and dangerous.” Karin Stanley, co-owner of New York cocktail lounge Dutch Kills.
Combine all ingredients in a high-ball glass, fill with crushed or cracked ice and top with a float of Angostura Bitters.
3) The Raving Psycho
Mix and serve over ice in a low-ball glass.
Not the pre-code 1930 film “Anna Christie” (“Gimme a visky with chincher ale and don’t be stinchy, baby.”), but a more exotic notion gave birth to this drink:
Shake the ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled high-ball glass.
On YouTube:“Anna Christie” (1930) ordering her drink in sleazy speakeasy. Sleazy yes, but one still had to ring the bell to get in :-).
https://youtu.be/_8Rvqm5XR7E
First poured at Chasen’s restaurant in Beverly Hills, it is usually served in a long glass with ice and garnished with a cherry and a slice of orange or lemon. If alcohol is required, as it should be, then one might try a Shirley Temple Black (7-Up, kahlua and grenadine), Black being the name of her later husband, or perhaps a Dirty Shirley (lemon-lime soda, vodka and grenadine) will do.
If it’s good enough for Jake and Elwood … . So thought many and the drink made a comeback in the early 80ies.
John Candy and the Orange Whip on YouTube:
“The deep reds of the Campari and blood orange juice make this bubbly cocktail reminiscent of pig’s blood, but serve these sparklers at your Halloween party and your guests will have a lot more fun than Carrie did at prom!” Katie Lee, author of the Comfort Table cookbooks.
Press a slice of juiced blood orange around the rim of a champagne glass. Press the top of the glass in the sugar to coat the rim. Combine the blood orange juice and Campari in the champagne glass. Top with sparkling wine.
Originally created at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in the 1930ies, its first revival is due to a 1972 Rolling Stones party at the Trident in Sausalito where Mick Jagger liked it so much that he and his entourage started drinking them down and making the drink popular, although the 1988 film by the same name starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell also did it’s part.
Pour tequila and orange juice and mix together. In a tall glass, fill with ice cubes and pour in mixture. The secret is the red to yellow gradient. Take grenadine and slowly add it in to allow it to fall to the bottom. Take an orange slice and maraschino cherry and garnish.
No, it isn’t a Knifey Moloko high-ball. The author of “A Clockwork Orange” Anthony Burgess left us few clues except that one of the main ingredients is milk and probably barbiturates to taste, but this drink isn’t a bad replacement:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, gin, whiskey, orange and lime juices, simple syrup and bitters, shake, strain into a chilled coupé, garnish with nutmeg and serve.
Originally, this fictional cocktail is an invention of Zaphod Beeblebrox (in Douglas Adams’“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) based on Janx Spirit. It is described as “the alcoholic equivalent of a mugging – expensive and bad for the head” and states that the effect of one “is like having your brain smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick”. A toned-down recipe for earthlings follows:
Mix as you see fit. 42.
The original recipe:
“Take the juice from one bottle of that Ol’ Janx Spirit. Pour into it one measure of water from the seas of Santraginus V. Allow three cubes of Arcturan Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).. Allow four litres of Fallian marsh gas to bubble through it (in memory of all those happy Hikers who have died of pleasure in the Marshes of Fallia).”
“Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Qualactin Hypermint extract, redolent of all the heady odours of the dark Qualactin Zones. Drop in the tooth of an Algolian Suntiger. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Algolian suns deep into the heart of the drink. Sprinkle Zamphour. Add an olive. Drink…but very careully.”
The 100th post belongs of course to W.C. Fields, the comedian remembered for playing profane, child-hating, boastful, dishonest, lecherous, and on occasion physically violent characters on-screen, and apparently not being the nicest of people off-screen.
If Mae West at least made pro forma attempts of disguising the gist of her lines and quotes in the flimsiest of innuendos or spoonerisms, such as …
”A hard man is good to find.”
(but not“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me.” which is a famous misquote)
… Fields was much more straight-forward with his favourite subject:
”Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.”
”I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
”The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.”
Since Mr. Fields was not much of a cocktail man, though he did purportedly begin his day with two Martinis, one before and one after breakfast, therefore making it difficult to nail down his drinking habits to one type of drink, the ”Gin & Orange” will have to serve as a stand in:
During the shooting of ”Tillie and Gus” (1933) Fields spiked the orange juice of his three-year old co-star Baby LeRoy and later, with the toddler staggering across the stage, Fields kept muttering: ”The kid’s no trooper. Look at him, he ain’t no trooper.”
Fill a chilled rocks glass with ice cubes, add all ingredients and garnish with an orange peel.
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