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Cynisca · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: Alexander the Great Cocktail

Alexander The Great Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients
1 1/2 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Coffee Liqueur
1/2 oz Creme de Cacao
1/2 oz Cream

Directions
Shake with ice and strain into a lowball glass.

Serve in a Old-Fashioned Glass

(from:
http://www.drinkswap.com/drinks/detail.asp?recipe_id=317

sounds rather nice.... Wink

Cynisca · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:43 pm Post subject: Cafe Noir a l'Alexander the Great

1350. Cafe Noir A L'Alexander The Great

Put in an earthen pot on the hot range three pints of cold water; when boiling, immediately add four and a half ounces of freshly ground coffee, and as soon as the coffee has been added, put the pot on the corner of the stove to rest for three minutes. Have a piece of hot, red (very red) charcoal the size of a small banana, plunge it into the coffee. (If no charcoal at hand, a piece of red stove-coal will answer). Let rest again for three minutes; then you will see a heavy foam appearing at the surface of the coffee, thoroughly skim it off with a skimmer. Then carefully and gently pour it into a hot coffee-pot, and send to the table with six small, hot demi-tasses; accompanied with six ponies of old Renauldt cognac.

I would recommend that, after the scum has been removed, the coffee should be handled as gently as possible, so that all undesirable elements will remain at the bottom.