Alexander

60ml Dry Gin
30ml White Creme de Cacao
30ml Cream

Shake and strain drink into chilled cocktail glass.

Appears in its earliest reference in 1916's book by Hugo Ensslin titled Recipes for Mixed Drinks.

Alaska

45m Gin
15ml Yellow Chartreuse

Stir in mixing glass and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Appears in the 1930's book The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Alabama Slammer

30ml Sloe Gin
30ml Amaretto
30ml Southern Comfort
60ml Fresh Orange Juice

Shake and strain ingredients into ice filled highball glass or five shot glasses.

First made at University of Alabama in 1975.

Gerudo (Legend Of Zelda Cocktail)

45ml Scotch
20ml Blood Orange Juice
20ml Sweet Vermouth
20ml Cherry Liqueur (preferable Cherry Herring)
1 or 2 Tablespoons of Espresso
2 Dashes of Angostura Bitters

Brew espresso and let it cool. Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Made by Mer from Oh I Feel The Cosmos Alright (http://ifeelthecosmos.tumblr.com/).

Blood And Sand

30ml Blended Scotch
30ml Blood Orange Juice
20ml Sweet Vermouth
20ml Cherry Liqueur (preferably Cherry Heering)

Shake and strain into cocktail glass with no ice. Garnish with maraschino and flame orange zest over glass.

First made as early as 1922 and mentioned in the 1930's book Savoy Cocktail Book. Named after the movie of the same name.

Abbey Cocktail

45ml Gin
20ml Lillet
20ml Fresh Orange Juice
2 Dashes of Angostura Bitters

Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Made in the 1930's.

Mint Julep

60ml Bourbon Whiskey
4 Fresh Mint Sprigs
1 Teaspoon Powdered Sugar
2 Teaspoons Water

In highball glass, gently muddle the mint, sugar and water. Fill glass with cracked ice, add the bourbon and stir well until the glass is frost. Garnish with mint sprig.

It originated in southern USA in the 18th century and first referenced in the 1803 print of a book by John Davis.

Espresso Martini

50ml Vodka
10ml Kahlua
Sugar Syrup
1 Short Strong Espresso

Prepared espresso and let it cool. Put ingredients into shaker and shake well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass.

Created in 1984 by Dick Bradsell while working at Fred's Bar in Soho, London.

French Martini

45ml Vodka
15ml Raspberry Liqueur
15ml Fresh Pineapple Juice

Pour ingredients into mixing glass with ice cubes. Stir well and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Squeeze oil from lemon peel into drink.

First made in Martinez, California around the 1870's.

Cosmopolitan

40ml Citron Vodka
150ml Triple Sec
15ml Fresh Lime Juice
30ml Cranberry Juice

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into large cocktail glass. Garnish with lime slice.

Cheryl Cook is often credited with creating the cocktail in Miami, Florida during the 1980's.

Mai-Tai

40ml White Rum
20ml Dark Rum
15ml Curacao
15ml Orgeat
10ml Fresh Lime Juice

Shake and strain ingredients into highball glass. Garnish with pineapple spear, mint leaves and lime peel. Serve with straw.

The Mai-Tai was originally made in California, USA in either the 1930's or 1940's.

Sex on the Beach

40ml Vodka
20ml Peach Schnapps
40ml Cranberry Juice
40ml Orange Juice

Build ingredients in ice filled highball glass. Garnish with a slice of orange.

The origins is obscure, but it is thought that this cocktail first appeared in the 1980's.

Pina Colada

30ml White Rum
90ml Pineapple Juice
Coconut

Put ingredients in bender with crushed ice. After blending, put in tall glass and garnish with a pineapple wedge and maraschino cherry,

The cocktail originated in the 1800's when created by Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresi. It later became the offical drink of Puerto Rico in 1978.

White Lady

40ml Gin
30ml Triple Sec
20ml Fresh Lemon Juice

Put in shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

It is said a man called Harry MacElhone created the White Lady in 1919 at Ciro's Club in London.

Whiskey Sour

45ml Bourbon Whiskey
30ml Lemon Juice
15ml Sugar Syrup
Dash of egg white (optional)

Put ingredients into shake with ice and shake well, if with egg white shake harder. Strain into cocktail glass, and garnish with half orange slice and marashcino cherry. If on the rocks strain into old fashioned glass.

Whiskey Sour was first developed to prevent scurvy amongst sailors in the 1700's by the British Navy as a method of preserving juice.

Gin Tropical

30ml Gin
30ml Triple Sec
30ml Pineapple Juice

Pour ingredients into shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a martini glass.

Unfortunately, I have found no information about the origins of this cocktail.

Sidecar

50ml Cognac
20ml Triple Sec
20ml Fresh Lemon Juice

Pour ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

Invented at the end of WWI in either Paris or London and named after the sidecar of motorcycles.

Sazerac

50ml Cognac
1ml Absinthe
1 Sugar Cube
2 dashes of Peychaud's Bitters

Rinse chilled old fashioned glass with absinthe, add crushed ice and set aside for later. Stir the sugar, cognac and Peychaud's bitters over ice cubes in a mixing glass. Discard the ice and excess absinthe in the old fashioned glass and strain the drink into it. Garnish with a lemon peel.

Sazerac was made in New Orleans in the 1850's and is referred to by some as the oldest American cocktail. Its origin lies from an establishment called the Sazerac Coffee House.

Dry Martini

60ml Gin
10ml Dry Vermouth

Pour gin and dry vermouth into mixing glass filled with ice cubes and stir well. Strain into chilled martini glass and garnish with lemon peel after squeezing its oil into the drink or garnish with olive.

First made in 1886 in the American Bar at Savoy Hotel in London by Thomas Stuart.

Aviation

40ml Gin
15ml Marshchino
15ml Fresh Lemon Juice

Shake ingredients and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

It has an obscure origin, but was at least made as early as 1911.

Margarita

45ml Tequila
30ml Triple Sec
45ml Lime Juice

Fill shaker with ice cubes and ingredients and shake well. Strain into glass and garnish with a wedge of lime.

The origin of the margarita is fuzzy, where it is commonly said to originate between 1936 and 1948. Mexican bartenders or a Texan socialite credited with the creation of this cocktail depending on whom is talked to.

Gin And Tonic

90ml Gin
120ml Tonic Water

Fill chilled glass with ice cubes and add the gin and tonic water. Squeeze some lime juice into it and then stir. Add a lime wedge as garnish.

Brits in India consumed quinine in the form of "Indian tonic water" and added gin to rid of the bitter taste, creating the Gin And Tonic.

Tom Collins

40ml Gin
10ml Lemon Juice
Teapoon of Superfine/Caster Sugar
Soda Water

Fill glass 3/4 full with cracked ice. Proceed to fill the glass with gin, lemon juice and sugar, stirring the ingredients briefly. Top up with soda water and garnish with a lemon piece.

This cocktail appears in the mid 1870's book by Jerry Thomas titled Bon Vivant's companion. The drink itself was named after a non-existent man of the same name who talked harshly of others when he was at the bar, prompting many to try to find him to have a word with Tom. This became known as The Great Tom Collins Hoax of 1874 and the cocktail Tom Collins was made in honour of this, so when people asked for the man Tom Collins they got a cocktail instead of confronting a person.

Old Fashioned

40ml of Bourbon or Scotch
A Sugar Cube
2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
A dash of water or soda water

Place sugar cube in glass, put two dashes of bitter and a dash of soda water in. Muddle until sugar is dissolved  Fill glass with ice and then whiskey. Add garnish of orange slice, lemon twist and two cherries.

One of the oldest cocktails that was referred to as a "whiskey cocktail" in the 19th century.

Manhattan

45ml Bourbon Whiskey
15ml Sweet Vermouth
Dash of Orange Bitter

Combine ingredients into mixing glass with 2 or 3 ice cubes and stir gently. Put cherry in chilled glass and strain drink over the cherry, putting an orange twist on rim of the glass as garnish.

Originated in the 1870's in The Manhattan Club in New York. It was invented by a man called Ian Marshall.

Gimlet

50ml Gin
20ml Lime Cordial
5ml Lime Juice

Pour ingredients into mixing glass filled with ice and stir well. Strain into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

It was created during the 19th century by sailors. This cocktail was named after the tool used to open barrels of juice.

Bloody Mary

45ml Vodka
100ml Tomato Juice
20ml Lemon Juice
4 dashes of Worcestershire Sause
4 dashes of Tabasco Sause

Build ingredients over ice and stir well. Add a pinch of pepper and garnish with a celery stick.

It is said to be first made by Fernand Petiot in the early 1920's in Paris at Harry's New York Bar. Petoit later brought the drink to St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan, New York.

Mojito

60ml White Rum
20ml Lime Juice
Soda Water
2 tablespoons of sugar
3 Common Mint leaves

Put sugar, mint leaves and some soda water in glass and muddle well. Squeeze lime juice in and place half of lime in glass. Add rum and stir well. Put ice in and top up glass with soda water. Garnish with mint sprig and serve with straw.

The origins of the Mojito is from Cuba and is one of the oldest cocktails. The exact origin is uncertain, with slaves in Cuba during the 19th century being one idea where the Mojito came to be. Another story of its origins comes from Francis Drake, who tried to sack a place for gold and was unsuccessful.  After this unsuccessful sacking an associate made a Mojito like drink called El Draque.

Sage's Wisdom

45ml Scotch Whiskey
15ml Triple Sec
30ml Orange Juice
15ml Lime Juice
8 Garden Sage leaves

Shake ingredients together and strain drink into a chilled Martini glass. Garnish by placing an orange slice horizontally into glass.

This drink was first made in Melbourne, Australia in 2012.