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    Vintage Cocktails: Forgotten Cocktails and Timeless Drinks
    Vintage Cocktails: Forgotten Cocktails and Timeless Drinks
    Vintage Cocktails: Forgotten Cocktails and Timeless Drinks
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    Vintage Cocktails: Forgotten Cocktails and Timeless Drinks

    By W T McCleat

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    Vintage Cocktails is a drinks and cocktail recipe book celebrating many of the world's renowned vintage drinks experienced through the eyes of W T McCleat. Will a world traveler and bon-viveur enjoys the experience of the cultures he has met. In his life's journey he has always kept a journal with him for the specific purpose of recording recipes, both of food and drink, from many of the cocktail parties and informal gatherings he has attended. In this book he shares with us a few secrets on how adding a simple twist to a world renowned cocktail recipe or vintage drink, turns it from fabulous to unbelievable!
    This book details many world beating cocktail drink recipes that have a unique twist to them. Each cocktail has a related story depicting Will's first experience with the vintage drink. Recipes for each customized vintage drink are provided in detail with the instructions to create your own cocktail art form. Impress the 'heck' out of your friends and neighbors. Imagine a long cool 'Gin and Tonic' not only with lime and mint, but with a few fresh green peppercorns in the mix. It makes this drink even more fabulous for those long hot summer evenings where cocktail parties go on to the wee hours of the morning.
    The vintage cocktails book provides signed (by McCleat) images of many vintage drinks in all their glory with many pictures depicting the art and the elegance of drink making. If this book doesn't make you thirsty for cocktail time, then I don't know what will! Reading this book will make you watch the clock, anticipating the five o' clock chime.
    If you want to know more about making impressive vintage drinks, for your own cocktail parties or to just savor for yourself, without complicated cocktail recipes and instructions, then this book is for you. The simple vintage cocktail recipes, the clear instructions, the attractive images and the story behind each vintage drink makes this book a real find!
    Read it, make it and tell the story of how it all came about!
    Here's to You!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandSPublishing
    Release dateOct 25, 2013
    ISBN9781311537393
    Vintage Cocktails: Forgotten Cocktails and Timeless Drinks
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    W T McCleat

    Will Thaddeus McCleat - W.T. McCleat Will was born in the Midwestern in the late fifties. He lived his early years on a farm. Will was around farm animals from an early age. He, at an early age on watched cattle, pigs and sheep mount the other. Of course the answer when asked always came back saying they were making babies. His interest in farm like waned along with the puzzlement generated of a Veterinarian’s use of a knife on a squealing pig. In his late but informative years he went to public school with the farm community values defining the curriculum. Strict and immovable subjects that prepared students for the basics. At the tender age of fourteen like many girls and boys he had his first sexual experience with a girl. That conquest continued to excite him to this day. At twenty-one after graduating from college he was commissioned and reported to flight school. Receiving his wings eighteen months later where he went to a real squadron to learn how to fly a combat airplane. He soon transitioned to the new OV-10A used in reconnaissance and forward air controller missions. For a small town country boy the assignments took him to exotic parts of the world where he learnt not only the art of war making, but loved to observe the exotic cultures with varied rituals even in lovemaking. In the early 90’s Will’s plane was shot down and as a result lost a leg and was discharged from the military. He retired back to the Midwest to a small house overlooking a river valley. As with all injured military, Will struggled to find a new life for himself. His ability to retain and recall information and with his fascination in the rituals of other cultures especially with their openness to sex and sexual experiences pushed him to start to write. Will decided to build a career as an author and self publisher. Will’s books are built upon first hand personal experience and about stories he recalled from others. He successfully blends his own experience in novels that are hot and steamy from page one. Will is now a successful writer and has many novels to his name. He still lives in his small house overlooking that still beautiful river valley and tending to his floral garden where he gets the inspiration for his new and erotic escapades.

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      Vintage Cocktails - W T McCleat

      In the Beginning

      W T McCleat has travelled the world seeking adventure and experiencing life in many different cultures. It is in this book he re-counts the drinks (and recipes) and the situations that had the greatest impact on him.

      When traveling the world, part of the fun of the journey was making new friends and experiencing as much of their culture as time would allow including 'sipping' the infamous drinks of the region. Observing the regiment of daily life and how the indigenous culture were influenced by others, whether occupiers or dominant neighbors, was always of great interest to McCleat especially through their drinking habits. The constants and changes were always reflected in the food, drink, dress and shelter (big and small) and the individual daily social and work life. McCleat found that drink alone in many of these cultures was an introduction to friendship and camaraderie!

      His social and business experiences with people, friends, and friends of friends, living in the many places visited, served as the basis for the inspiration of this book. He wanted to share aspects of these times so he wrote this book on vintage drinks. The subject matter may seem strange to a reader but to McCleat it was his way of reflecting on the depth of each of his experiences and the choices made during many of these customary libations.

      The following pages are about people and their relationships, mostly social, through the indulgence of booze. Yes booze, whiskey, rum, scotch, gin, vodka and all the mixes and trimmings that were used to give a reflection of the storyteller's experiences and recollections of life. This is serious stuff. It isn't about quantity; it's more about quality of life.

      Read the story with each libation. The connections are always around the continuing great social gathering of conversation and reflection centered on a time set aside for a drink or a cocktail. Some call it 'Happy Hour" others say 'the hour is 5PM, time for a drink'.

      These drink tales are pure storytelling at its best but McCleat suspects folklore was involved in a few. Many of the drink recipes will have some familiarity but with a special or unique twist, maybe one you haven’t experienced or thought about.

      As you read through you will, with certainty, develop a thirst for a few of the storytellers' liquid refreshments. When you choose a cocktail to experience from this book, always remember 'don't 'Bruise the Booze', a saying McCleat invented when he saw the damage done to drinks by pouring alcohol over the ice instead of adding ice to the alcohol.. Keeping that one axiom in mind will release the spirits of the cocktail recipe chosen to a new robust pleasure so never pour the booze over the ice as you will 'Bruise the Booze'!

      Enjoy the read and the images that welcome you in many foreign languages to each new drink. So Cheers! Salud! Sante! Sorakan! Salute! And To your good health!

      It's Five 'O Clock Somewhere!

      McCleat's British Empire Gin and Tonic

      Created by the British. A colonial gin drink used to ward off the mosquitos in India since quinine keeps the mosquitos at bay. Quinine was the anti-malarial drug of choice until the 1940s!

      McCleat learned the special art of making the world's best Gin and Tonic from his British buddy, good ole Brad Ramsay, his ‘whisky’ drinking Scottish friend and author. Brad had mastered the fine art of making Gin and Tonic from his days in the military service out in India, the birthplace of the famed 'Gin and Tonic'. Brad had been in the officer's club in Delhi where the old generals with their Bombay Bowlers still frequented. The local punkawallahs still provided the majestic Gin and Tonic right at 5PM every day. It was there that Brad learned the fine art of concocting the world's best Gin and Tonic. While visiting WT, Brad taught Will this fine art specifically in pouring the Gin so as not to 'Bruise the Booze'!

      McCleat perfected this old colonial drink, through a unique balance of gin brand, quantity, tonic, lime and mint. Try it!

      Recipe:

      • Squeeze a slice of lime and drop into a long tall glass

      • Pour Two fingers of chilled Gordon's Gin (must be Gordons - remember don't 'Bruise the Booze' always add the ice last!)

      • Fill Glass with ice

      • Top off with 'fresh' sparkling tonic (preferably Schweppes)

      • Add a sprig of mint gently rubbed on the rim of the glass

      • Green preferably or black fresh peppercorns (optional)

      Now you can savor the famous McCleat's new world Gin and Tonic. Beware more than two will get you flying!

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