Cocktails: You Know, That's Not Half Bad!

This is just my recipe list so I won't have to rely on my memory. First entry was the Vesper Cocktail (down at the bottom) which seems fitting. Use freshly squeezed juices for all citrus. Adjust amounts to your taste. Here is a link to the equipment I prefer (or equivalent if no longer available).  Use browser search function to find something specific below. Cheers!

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What the Dickens? 
1 oz Cognac or good brandy
1 oz Benedictine
1/2 oz lemon juice
1 1/2 oz tonic water
lemon peel for garnish

Add crushed ice 1/2 way up an old fashioned glass or rocks glass. Add the liquids, stir, and add more crushed ice to fill. Express oil from and garnish with lemon peel.

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Tom Collins
1 1/2 gin
1 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
3 oz club soda (or just top off)

Combine the first three ingredients in a glass of about 12 ounces. Add ice leaving room for soda. Add soda and garnish with lemon wheel. You can add a cherry if you so desire.

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Alexander
1 1/2 oz gin
1 oz creme de cacao
3/4 oz half and half or cream
Whole nutmeg for garnish

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Grate a little fresh nutmeg on top for garnish

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Gold Rush
2 oz bourbon
1 oz honey syrup*
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
Lemon twist for garnish

Shake with ice and strain into an ice filled rocks glass.
Garnish with lemon twist
*For honey syrup, combine 1 oz honey and 1 oz hot water, stir till combined. Makes enough for 2 drinks.

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Sidecar
1.5 - 2 oz cognac
1 oz Cointreau (or triple sec in a pinch)
1/2 oz lemon juice
Lemon twist for garnish

Shake with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with lemon twist

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Oriental Cocktail

1.5 - 2 oz rye or bourbon
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz triple sec
1/2 oz lime juice

Shake with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

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Sazerac
1 oz cognac or good quality brandy
1 oz bourbon
1/4 oz simple syrup
2-3 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Lemon peel or twist for garnish

Add to liquids to a mixing glass with ice and stir until very cold.
Strain into a chilled martini glass. Express oil from lemon peel, run around inside of glass, and drop in or discard peel.

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Vesper Cocktail
2 oz gin (usually Beefeater or Bombay Sapphire at our home)
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz Cocci Americano
Lemon peel or twist for garnish

Add to liquids to a mixing glass with ice and stir until very cold.
Strain into a chilled martini glass. Express oil from lemon peel, run around inside of glass, and drop in or discard peel.