"section of the village that is to this day named Waterloo. Writing in the middle of the 19th century, Alexander Smith said, ""If Portree is the London of Skye, Broadford is its Manchester."" Legend holds that the recipe for the liqueur Drambuie was given by Bonnie Prince Charlie to Clan MacKinnon who then passed it onto James Ross late 19th century. Ross ran the Broadford Inn (now the Broadford Hotel), where he developed and improved the recipe, initially for his friends and then later to patrons. Ross then began to sell it further afield and the name was registered as"
"(""Bonnie Prince Charlie"") with a battalion of men. Lord President Duncan Forbes estimated that the Mackinnon force of that time was about 200 men. ""Mackinnons – The Laird of Mackinnon is their Chief, who in Irish is called Mackenoin holds his Lands of the Crown both in the Isles of Sky and Mull and Can raise 200 Men."" Following the defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden, Charles Edward Stuart fled to the west coast of Scotland in order to flee to France. Tradition has the Mackinnons aiding the prince, with the chief concealing him in a cave, and the chief's"
"isle of Skye. There, he was given sanctuary by Captain John MacKinnon of Clan MacKinnon. According to family legend, after staying with the captain, the prince rewarded him with this prized drink recipe. This version of events is disputed by historians who believe it to be a story concocted to boost sales of the drink. The legend holds that the recipe, which at that time had no known name, was given by Clan MacKinnon to John Ross in the late 19th century. James Ross, his son and a local business man, ran the Broadford Hotel in Broadford on Skye and"
"the drink to an American army captain in Paris during World War I and named after the motorcycle sidecar that the captain used. Both MacElhone and Vermiere state the recipe as equal parts cognac, Cointreau, and lemon juice, now known as ""the French school"". Later, an ""English school"" of sidecars emerged, as found in the ""Savoy Cocktail Book"" (1930), which call for two parts cognac and one part each of Cointreau and lemon juice. According to Embury, the original sidecar had several ingredients, which were ""refined away"". Embury also states the drink is simply a daiquiri with brandy as its"
"at one stage he has to dress as a woman. MacDonald keeps Charles' spirits high, and he manages to get on a boat to take him back to Italy. In April 1936 Leslie Howard announced he wanted to make a film about Bonnie Prince Charlie. Two years later he said he would make it with Alexander Korda after his films of Lawrence of Arabia and Lord Nelson. ""I am so in love with the story of Charles Edward that I would not undertake it unless I had time to adequately prepare and complete it"", said Howard.|author=Plans to make the film"
"Charles Edward Stuart, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, the pretender to the thrones of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland; very little remains due to the tradition of smashing glasses after the toast so that they could not be used for a lesser toast. After the defeat of the Jacobites and the exile overseas of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite Scots would stand for the loyal toast to ""the King"" but pass their drink over a glass or jug of water on the table symbolising ""the king over the water"" instead of the British monarch, as a sign of solidarity with the"
"Bonnie Prince Charlie, and under her influence goes over to the Jacobite side and takes part in the Battle of Prestonpans. He escapes retribution, however, after saving the life of a Whig colonel during the battle. Waverley (whose surname reflects his divided loyalties) eventually decides to lead a peaceful life of establishment respectability under the House of Hanover rather than live as a proscribed rebel. He chooses to marry the beautiful Rose Bradwardine, rather than cast his lot with the sublime Flora MacIvor, who, after the failure of the '45 rising, retires to a French convent. There followed a succession"
"cream, and Grand Marnier. It is commonly found in the downtown bars of Nassau. Hurricane (cocktail) The hurricane is a sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, fruit juice, and syrup or grenadine. It is one of many popular drinks served in New Orleans. The creation of this passion fruit–colored relative of a daiquiri is credited to New Orleans tavern owner Pat O'Brien. The bar allegedly started as a speakeasy called Mr. O'Brien's Club Tipperary and the password was ""storm's brewin'. In the 1940s, he needed to create a new drink to help him get rid of all of the less-popular"
"The first edition of the guide included the first written recipes of such cocktails as the Brandy Daisy, Fizz, Flip, Sour and variations of the earliest form of mixed drink, Punch. The 1876 edition included the first written recipe for the Tom Collins, which appeared just after The Tom Collins Hoax of 1874. Thomas developed his signature drink, the Blue Blazer, at the El Dorado gambling saloon in San Francisco. The drink is made by lighting whiskey afire and passing it back and forth between two mixing glasses, creating an arc of flame. Thomas continued to develop new drinks throughout"
"Hurricane (cocktail) The hurricane is a sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, fruit juice, and syrup or grenadine. It is one of many popular drinks served in New Orleans. The creation of this passion fruit–colored relative of a daiquiri is credited to New Orleans tavern owner Pat O'Brien. The bar allegedly started as a speakeasy called Mr. O'Brien's Club Tipperary and the password was ""storm's brewin'. In the 1940s, he needed to create a new drink to help him get rid of all of the less-popular rum that local distributors forced him to buy before he could get a few"
"synthetic gin, I tried making fudge for a living, Now look at the shape that I'm in. Repeat chorus </poem> My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean ""My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"" is a traditional Scottish folk song that remains popular in Western culture. Although the song's origin is uncertain, its original subject could possibly be Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'): after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile, his Jacobite supporters could have sung this song or one like it in his honour; and thanks to the ambiguity of"
"Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film) Bonnie Prince Charlie is a 1948 British historical film directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films depicting the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie within it. Filmed in Technicolor, it starred David Niven, Jack Hawkins and Margaret Leighton. In 1745, Flora MacDonald plays a Jacobite song on the piano and is scolded by her stepfather for its seditious nature. In Italy, James, the Old Pretender, wants to make another attempt at regaining the English throne but is worried that he is too old. It is decided to send his son, Charles."
"class and English-speaking foreigners. The pisco sour underwent several changes until Mario Bruiget, a Peruvian bartender working at Morris' Bar, created the modern Peruvian recipe of the cocktail in the latter part of the 1920s by adding Angostura bitters and egg whites to the mix. In Chile, folklorist Oreste Plath attributed the invention of the drink to Elliot Stubb, an English steward of a ship named ""Sunshine"", who allegedly mixed Key lime juice, syrup, and ice cubes to create the cocktail in a bar, in 1872, in the port city of Iquique, which at that time was part of Peru."
"Tom Collins The Tom Collins is a cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water. First memorialized in writing in 1876 by Jerry Thomas, the ""father of American mixology"", this drink is typically served in a Collins glass over ice. A ""Collins mix"" can be bought premixed at stores and enjoyed alone (like a soft drink) or with gin. In August 1891, British physician Sir Morell Mackenzie wrote an article in the influential 19th century magazine ""Fortnightly Review"" claiming that England was the originating country for the Tom Collins cocktail and a person named John Collins was its"
"These cordials were called Surfeit Waters, which were specifically created for treating overindulgence. Precious ingredients like gold, pearls and coral were sometimes added. These were believed to revive the spirit and to preclude disease. Lucy Pevensie, a pivotal character in C. S. Lewis's ""Chronicles of Narnia"", was, as Queen Lucy in ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"", gifted a bottle of magical cordial by Father Christmas along with her dagger, prior to the Battle of Berunia. The cordial was said to be made from the juice of Fire-Flowers that grew in the mountains of the sun, with a single"
"a beverage similar to the Mojito by mixing aguardiente, sugar, lime, and mint. He coined the drink “El Draque” after the nickname of his head , Sir Francis Drake. An example of a Signature drink designed for an establishment is the Bellini. It was concocted by Giuseppe Cipriani, the bartender and owner of Harry’s Bar in Venice, Italy. Italian white peaches were one of Cipriani’s favorite fruits, but were only available from June to September. In a moment of inspiration he created this refreshing summer beverage by combining the fresh white peaches with prosecco. He named his cocktail after Giovanni"
"his crew's morale, gave them a beverage or cocktail that contained coconut, pineapple and white rum. This was what would be later known as the famous piña colada. With his death in 1825, the recipe for the piña colada was lost. Historian Haydée Reichard disputes this version of the story. In 1950 ""The New York Times"" reported that ""Drinks in the West Indies range from Martinique's famous rum punch to Cuba's pina colada (rum, pineapple and coconut milk)."" The Caribe Hilton says that Ramón ""Monchito"" Marrero created the Piña Colada in 1954, when a bartender at the hotel. After three"
"MacElhone at ""The New York Bar"", later known as ""Harry's New York Bar"". There he is said to have invented the first Bloody Mary cocktail in the early 1920s, according to his granddaughter and Al Thompson. ""The New York Bar"" was a frequent hangout for American expatriates such as Ernest Hemingway, as well as movie stars and other celebrities of the day, including Ava Gardner, Rex Harrison, Douglas Fairbanks Junior, Salvador Dali and Joe DiMaggio. According to the bar's own traditions, the Bloody Mary was created on the spur-of-the-moment for a small group of friends, and at first consisted only"
"Edward which reads: ""Flora MacDonald: A name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtures, mentioned with honour"" - Samuel Johnson The preserve of Bonnie Prince Charlie spent the winter of 1779 here with her husband, Captain Allan Macdonald of the Royal Highland Emigrants, when returning to her old home in Skye. After exile from her home in North Carolina. Her loyalty and devotion in the midst of troubled days have long been told in Scottish song and story. On October 23, 1776, under the Captain Murdock MacLaine, the 84th Regiment was in the Battle"
"1876 edition of Jerry Thomas' ""Bar-Tender's Guide."" Since New York based Thomas would have known about the widespread hoax and the contents of the 1876 published book were developed during or right after The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, it was believed by George Sinclair that the hoax event was the most plausible source of the name for the Tom Collins cocktail. Classified under the heading ""Collins"" with similarly named whisky and brandy drinks, Jerry Thomas' Tom Collins Gin instructed: <poem>Jerry Thomas' Tom Collins Gin (1876) Take 5 or 6 dashes of gum syrup. Juice of a small lemon."
"Daiquiri Daiquiri (; ) is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener. The daiquiri is one of the six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic ""The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks"", which also lists some variations. ""Daiquirí"" is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba, and is a word of Taíno origin. The drink was supposedly invented by an American mining engineer, named Jennings Cox, who was in Cuba at the time of the Spanish–American War. It is also"
"the 19th century. In the 19th century, the ""Champagne cup"" was a popular cocktail, consisting of champagne, lemon juice, sugar, and ice. Gin was sometimes added, yielding a drink much like the French 75. The drink was first recorded as the 75 in ""Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails"", 1922 edition, by Harry MacElhone, and in the same year in Robert Vermeire's ""Cocktails: How to Mix Them,"" which credits the drink to MacElhone. However, the recipes differed from the current form – MacElhone's version consisted of Calvados, gin, grenadine, and absinthe, while Vermeire added lemon juice. The recipe took its now-classic"
"My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean ""My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"" is a traditional Scottish folk song that remains popular in Western culture. Although the song's origin is uncertain, its original subject could possibly be Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie'): after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile, his Jacobite supporters could have sung this song or one like it in his honour; and thanks to the ambiguity of the term ""bonnie"", which can refer to a woman as well as to a man, they could pretend it was"
"Bellini (cocktail) A Bellini cocktail is a mixture of Prosecco sparkling wine and peach purée or nectar, which originated in Venice, Italy. The Bellini was invented sometime between 1934 and 1948 by Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy. He named the drink the ""Bellini"" because its unique pink color reminded him of the toga of a saint in a painting by 15th-century Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini. The drink started as a seasonal specialty at Harry's Bar, a favorite haunt of Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis and Orson Welles. Later, it also became popular at the bar's New York"
"Rickey (cocktail) The rickey is a highball drink made from gin or bourbon, half of a lime squeezed and dropped in the glass, and carbonated water. Little or no sugar is added to the rickey. Originally created with bourbon in Washington, D.C. at Shoomaker's bar by bartender George A. Williamson in the 1880s, purportedly in collaboration with Democratic lobbyist Colonel Joe Rickey, it became a worldwide sensation when mixed with gin a decade later. A recipe for the rickey appeared as early as ""Daly's Bartenders' Encyclopedia"" (1903, p. 57) by Tim Daly: GIN RICKEY. Use a sour glass. Squeeze the"
"popular with many connoisseurs and clubmen."" Revelation (cocktail) The Revelation appears in William ""Cocktail"" Boothby's 1908 work The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them as ""A swell after-dinner drink."" Into a small mixing-glass place a little cracked ice, two-thirds of a pony of Bénédictine, one-third of a pony of Kümmel and seven drops (no more) of Crème de menthe. Twist and throw in a piece of lemon peel (a la cocktail). Stir thoroughly until cold and serve in a pony-glass. This is a most seductive after-dinner beverage, and it was originated by Mr. Dennis O'Sullivan, the well-known mixologist, several"
"that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."" James Bond specifies a recipe for a gin and tonic while in Kingston, Jamaica, in the book ""Dr. No"". Unusually it involves the juice of a whole lime. In the movie ""The Year of Living Dangerously"", Colonel Henderson, when he first meets Guy Hamilton, complains when his gin and tonic is served with ice, explaining that only Americans drink it like that. On the popular sitcom ""How I Met Your Mother"", character Barney Stinson played by Neil Patrick Harris is often heard ordering"
"drink was named after the town. Indeed, a ""Martinez Cocktail"" was first described in Jerry Thomas' 1887 edition of his ""Bartender's Guide, How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks"": Other bartending guides of the late 19th century contained recipes for numerous cocktails similar to the modern-day martini. For example, Harry Johnson's ""Bartenders' Manual"" (1888) listed a recipe for a drink that consisted in part of half a wine glass of Old Tom gin and a half a wine glass of vermouth. The first dry martini is sometimes linked to the name of a bartender who concocted the"
"Rickey looked at the Ice for a while, and then said: some bourbon and fill it up with seltzer from a siphon. The next day, Colonel Hatch, seeing a bowl of limes on the counter, said. ""Say. Joe. why don t you try a lime in that stuff?"" Colonel Rickey liked the suggestion, and Williamson squeezed a half lime In each glass before putting in the bourbon and seltzer. Only one thing did he ever make clear to his real political convictions that he was not a civil service reformer."" The name itself is also attributed to both Rep. William"
"lime rickey, or as a virgin cocktail variant served at soda fountains on the U.S. east coast. The mojito, which originated in Cuba, is a popular relative of the rickey, made with lime juice, rum, simple syrup or muddled sugar, soda water, and muddled mint leaves. In 1883, Colonel Joe Rickey was purported to have invented the ""Joe Rickey,"" after a bartender at Shoomaker's in Washington, D.C. added a lime to his ""mornin's morning,"" a daily dose of Bourbon with lump ice and Apollinaris sparkling mineral water. Some stories place the exact day as a Monday after Col. Joe Rickey"
"Milk punch Milk punch is a milk-based brandy or bourbon beverage. It consists of milk, the spirit, sugar, and vanilla extract. It is served cold and usually has nutmeg sprinkled on top. The drink was first recorded in William Sacheverell's 1688 travelogue of the Scottish isle of Iona. Later accounts attributed its spread, if not its origin, to Aphra Behn. The earliest recorded recipe for milk punch dates to a 1711 cookbook. Originally served in a punch bowl, early recipes resembled posset and syllabub in the use of curdled, strained cream, leaving only lactic acid. This technique aimed at food"
"Bijou (cocktail) A bijou is a mixed alcoholic drink composed of gin, vermouth, and chartreuse. This cocktail was invented by Harry Johnson, ""the father of professional bartending"", who called it ""bijou"" because it combined the colors of three jewels: gin for diamond, vermouth for ruby, and chartreuse for emerald. An original-style bijou is made stirred with ice as Johnson's 1900 ""New and Improved Bartender Manual"" states ""mix well with a spoon and serve."" This recipe is also one of the oldest in the manual, dating back to the 1890s. The bijou was popular for several decades. Unlike the Manhattan and"
"ice. After a thorough shaking, it was poured into a chilled coupe glass. Consumption of the drink remained localized until 1909, when Rear Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox's drink. Johnson subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C., and drinkers of the daiquiri increased over the space of a few decades. It was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and President John F. Kennedy. The drink became popular in the 1940s. World War II rationing made whiskey and vodka hard to come by, yet because of U.S."