10-02-2016, 06:17 PM
Shaken! Not stirred. More cock tale history:
Long before there was the Boston, the French or the cobbler, the cocktail shaker had been invented in South America. Fragments of gourd with traces of alcohol in them have been identified as being for the purpose of mixing drinks as early as 7000 BCE. By 1520 CE, explorer Hernando Cortez wrote back to Spain of frothy cacao mixtures prepared in a "golden cylinder-shaped container."
But the cocktail shaker as we think of it today in full performance-art mode became part of the bar arsenal around the mid-19th century. Prior to this, the favored method of mixing smooth drinks was tossing them back and forth between two glasses. Supposedly, the shaker developed when someone (possibly an innkeeper) came up with the idea of putting the two glasses together. According to Stephen Viskay in Vintage Bar Ware, "Finding that the smaller mouth of one container fit into another, he held the two together and shook 'for a bit of a show.'" The result: cleaner, more thorough mixing of cocktails.
https://talesofthecocktail.com/history/b...ers-part-2
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Long before there was the Boston, the French or the cobbler, the cocktail shaker had been invented in South America. Fragments of gourd with traces of alcohol in them have been identified as being for the purpose of mixing drinks as early as 7000 BCE. By 1520 CE, explorer Hernando Cortez wrote back to Spain of frothy cacao mixtures prepared in a "golden cylinder-shaped container."
But the cocktail shaker as we think of it today in full performance-art mode became part of the bar arsenal around the mid-19th century. Prior to this, the favored method of mixing smooth drinks was tossing them back and forth between two glasses. Supposedly, the shaker developed when someone (possibly an innkeeper) came up with the idea of putting the two glasses together. According to Stephen Viskay in Vintage Bar Ware, "Finding that the smaller mouth of one container fit into another, he held the two together and shook 'for a bit of a show.'" The result: cleaner, more thorough mixing of cocktails.
https://talesofthecocktail.com/history/b...ers-part-2
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