Historical Origin of Cocktail

The word cocktail is a direct translation of the English word cocktail. Cocktails In 1777, Betsy Flanagan invented the American "cocktail". Cocktails originated in 1776 at a tavern in Elmsford, New York that was decorated with cocktail feathers. One day when the tavern was running out of liquor, some officers came in to buy a drink. A waitress called Betsy Flanagan, then all the leftover wine poured into a large container, and casually plucked a feather from a large rooster to stir the wine out to serve the guests. The officers looked at the color of the wine, and not being able to taste it, asked Betsy, who replied casually, "This is a cocktail!" One of the officers heard this word, and happily raised his glass to make a toast, and shouted: "Long live the cocktail!" The name "cocktail" has been used ever since. This is the origin of the name recognized in the Americas. Saying two One day, after a banquet, the seat left a variety of different wines, some cups left 1/4, some cups left 1/2. There is a clean up the table of the fellows, will be a variety of leftover wine, three, five cups mixed together, a taste but better than the original variety of single wine. Then, the fellow made several kinds of wine in different combinations, and so on. After this, these mixed wines were given to everyone to drink, and the results were highly evaluated. As a result, this method of mixing drinks became famous and spread. It is not known why it was called "cocktail" instead of "mate's drink". The Third Story In 1775, moved to the United States in New York, Allendz, Pierce brother, opened a drugstore in the downtown area, manufacturing a variety of refined alcohol sold to customers. One day, he mixed eggs into the medicinal wine for sale, and gained a lot of praise. From then on, customers filled the door and business was booming. At that time, most people in Allentown, New York, spoke French, and they used a French accent to call it a "Cocktail", which later became "Cocktail" in English. Since then, cocktails have become a favorite mixed drink, and more and more styles. Statement Four In the 19th century, American Clifford operated a hotel on the Hudson River. The Clifford family had three things they were proud of, known as the Clifford's Three Stooges. First, he had a large, well-fed, imposing rooster, a famous cockfighter; second, his wine storehouse was said to have the world's most outstanding wines; third, he boasted that his daughter, Ain't Millie, was the city's number one beautiful woman, and seemed to be the only one of her kind in the world. There was a young man in town named Akinruth who came to the hotel every night to relax for a while, a crew member on a freighter that traveled up and down the Hudson River. Over the years, he and Emily fell in love. This young man is good natured, practical work, the old Kerry heart like him, but often tease him and say: "young man, you want to eat swan meat? Give you a condition, you quickly try to become a captain." The young man is very persistent, study hard, work hard, a few years later finally became a captain, Ai Enmily naturally also became his wife. At the wedding, the old man was so happy that he took out all the best vintage wines from the cellar, blended them into "The Best of the Best", and decorated the rims of the glasses with rooster's tail feathers, which was very beautiful. Then he toasted to his daughter and top son-in-law, and shouted, "Long live the cocktail!" Since then, cocktails have become very popular. According to the legend, during the American Independence period, an Irish girl named Bytches opened a hotel in New York, and in 1779, some American and French officers in Washington's army used to go to this hotel to drink a kind of mixed excitement drink called "Bledsoe". However, these people were not calmly drinking and relaxing, but often made fun of the owner of the store, Miss, compared to a small hen to make fun of Baitus. One day, the lady was so angry that she came up with an idea to teach them a lesson. She took a cock's tail feather from a farmer's henhouse and put it in a glass of "Bresso". She gave it to the officers to drink, in order to curse the men with the cock's tail. Guests see the situation is very surprised, but can not understand, only think it is very beautiful, so a French officer casually shouted "long live the cocktail" from then on, to add the rooster's tail feathers of the "Bledsoe" has become "cocktails From then on, the cocktail became a "cocktail" with the tail feathers of a rooster, and has been passed down to this day. Legend has it that many years ago, a British ship anchored in the town of Kanger on the Yucatan Peninsula, and the crew went to the town's bar for a drink. A young boy on the bar floor used a tree branch to stir up a mixture for the seafarers. One of the seafarers drank it and felt that the wine was extraordinary in flavor and was like nothing he had ever tasted before in his life. So he went to the boy and asked, "What is the name of this wine? The boy thought he was asking about the name of the branch, so he replied, "Koraje, kaje." This is a Spanish word for "cocktail". The young man replied jokingly that the branch resembled a rooster's tail feathers, but the crew mistook it for a cocktail. Since then, "cocktail" has become a nickname for mixed drinks. Said seven to a noblewoman Oxc-hitel's name and evolved into a Cocktail, as a sign of dignity: to the cock tail feathers to symbolize heroism: to the colored cocktail to symbolize the bartender girl love of beauty and bartending skill and so on.