Jun 25, 2017
Today’s Mr. Boston’s recipe, the Brandy Flip, is all over the place. While I think the name was originally intended to describe the preparation of the drink, the amount of flip flopping this cocktail recipe has undergone over the years is impressive! I did...
Jun 21, 2017
The Brandy continues to flow… umm, maybe that should be more like flood. We are entering day six of this spirit with no end in sight. Over the next 17 days (that’s right nearly a month long Brandy feast!) Ryan and I will be drinking our way through:...
Jun 12, 2017
I’m so glad I decided to save the next Mr. Boston’s cocktail for today. After a good nights sleep, I discovered that the Boston Cooler is choked-full of vintage intrigue! Googling “Boston Cooler”, a sea of articles turn up. The thing is…...
Jun 6, 2017
The oldest Bolo Cocktail recipe I was able to uncover was in Hugo Ensslin’s 1917 ‘Recipes for Mixed Drinks’. Identical in every way to the mixture noted in my copy of Mr. Boston’s from 1935, this Rum beverage appears to follow the trend of...
Jun 5, 2017
I’m beginning to think that Mr. Cotton was quite the film buff. I suppose it was the Golden Age of Hollywood after-all 🙂 Our next Mr. Boston’s recipe appears to be inspired by another 1934 movie. This one starred Carole Lombard and George Raft. The films...
May 16, 2017
Yesterday’s cocktail duo lacked intrigue. Thankfully, today’s Mr. Boston’s recipe is chock-full of it! Is it Punch or Punsch? That is the question of the day. I’d never heard of Swedish Punsch until running into the 1935 recipe for the Biffy...
