Oh my gosh, who needs a cocktail?
It feels like it’s been forever since we’ve done this.
AuthorRetroRuth
From Vintage Vending Machine Cocktail Cards
Tested Recipe!
[cooked-sharing]
Shake with cracked ice.
Ingredients
Directions
Shake with cracked ice.
Notes
This cocktail comes from a great little set of cocktail cards I bought off of Instagram. They are from vintage tabletop vending machines, and the top part pulls back to reveal your winning number!
How cool is that?
Just another reason for a drink!
And you guys wonder why we don’t have time for fancy cocktails. Look at that guy. He’s basically trying to climb the wall.
Tom’s Verdict: Good
From The Tasting Notes –
Anisette was a little overwhelming. Otherwise, pretty good. Strong, definitely a sipping drink. A little syrupy, but you could barely taste the gin flavor. This drink might actually be better if you used a stronger, cheaper gin. Overall, a good drink.
Hi,
I think that drink sounds a little too sweet, although I like Anisette and gin, but separately. Were the bitters supposed to cut the sweet?
A question for your expertise: in the 60s, there was a tea bread spread called Nun’s Butter. It was a kind of hard sauce, but had eggs, I think. I can’t find my old recipe card from the lady who gave me the recipe. Do you know it?
Thanks,
Nina
I still have a few vintage cards from a ‘fortune-telling machine’ at an arcade, retro even back in the 80’s, such fun to see something similar. Baby is adorable, as is Tom.
The United States was longing for neutral distilled alcohol in the form of vodka. Instead we languished for many decades making do with gin…
Hi Nina!
I vaguely remember having Nun’s Butter or Nun’s Bread way back when. Was the recipe anything like this?
http://www.cooks.com/recipe/sd6ps7b2/nuns-bread.html
Hey Ruth, male reader here who is rather jealous of Tom, until I see some of the recipes he puts up with! Though I suspect the actual cooking makes up for it. Love the blog!!!
I think your recipe may be in this book:
Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1250111943
Janet Theophano – 2016 – Cooking
“She also omits the wine sauce and suggests only nun’s butter. The recipe for nun’s butter is found on the preceding page of Keen’s manuscript; it is identical to Widdifield’s and may also have come from the printed book.”