New Years: After The Thin Man

After The Thin Man

This is one of my favorite New Year movies.  It has all the charm of the first Thin Man movie, and taken from a Dashiell Hammett story.  It has all the irony, stinging jokes, flowing liquor and dry humor, along with what turns out to be a very dark mystery with James Stewart mixed to the top of the whole thing (as Easy from Devil In A Blue Dress would say).

Theme Recipe: Bronx Cocktail

Nick Charles states that The Bronx cocktail should always be "shaken to the two-step."  Well however you shake it, if you like gin, then you'll really like the Bronx, which is really a type of martini, being described as "perfect martini with orange" ("perfect" means with both type of vermouth, not perfect as in "perfection).  I've already tackled the The Martini, which he says should be shaken to The Waltz.

1 oz. Gin

1 dash dry vermouth

1 dash sweet vermouth

1/2 oz orange juice

Orange slice or stemmed maraschino cherry for garnish (optional)

Ice

Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.  Shake well ( to the two step if you like!) and pour into martini glass.  Garnish if liked.

Some places in Europe this is served over ice.

Two Halloween cocktails from last year:  The Dark And Stormy Martini as part of last year's 31 Days of Blavod, and the The Vampire Martini.

Song Of The Thin Man (1947)

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)

Shadow Of Thin Man (1941)