MIXED DRINKS
Unit III : Mixed Drinks 3.1. Concept and History of Mixed Drinks The term mixed drink means the combination of two or more than two potable beverages may be alcoholic or non- alcoholic, which gives new taste, flavour and looks. A mixed drink is basically any drink with one alcoholic beverage added to one or more beverage – albeit alcoholic or not. The word “Cocktail” has lot of mystery to it. No one knows from where it is originated. But one considers that since Americans first made popular this habit, they may well be the inventors too. There are many prevailing stories regarding the origin of the word “cocktail”. 1. The name refers to the habit of decorating flagons of drinks with the feathers from cock’s tails, a custom dating back to the Elizabethan era. 2. English buccaneers travelling in the Gulf of Mexico in the sixteenth century came upon a local custom in which mixtures of the rudimentary dis...