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favorite cocktails: brandy

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Pisco Sour La Fonda del Sol

The restaurant’s menu listed this cocktail as a “Pisco Sawer. ” By any name, it’s delicious.
April 1964
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Gourmet’s Champagne Punch

This festive Champagne punch is the perfect wedding-party libation: It looks as beautiful as it tastes.
June 1959
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Distrito Federal

You can think of this cocktail as a softer, more well-rounded Black Russian. Rum and brandy replace the vodka.
August 1958
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Alexander II

Swapping brandy for gin is generally a bad idea, but in this case it really works.
January 1946
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Baltimore Eggnog

This recipe from the ’40s is so rich and delicious it impressed even a jaded food editor.
December 1945
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Sidecar

Like so many of our favorite drink recipes from the ’40s, this one has a confusing history. Feel free to skip ahead and start mixing.
December 1945
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Bridge Punch

Although we have no idea what Charles H. Baker Jr.’s pineapple problem was, this is one of our favorite drink recipes from the ’40s.
June 1943
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Aristocrat Sparkling Punch

This 1940’s recipe comes from an article called “Punch is for Parties.” Party on.
February 1942
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Phoebe Snow

This drink is named for a character in a railroad ad campaign that started in the 1880s.
November 1941
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