I am a big fan of Richard Godwin’s online cocktail emporium The Spirits. Recently I was delving around in there, reading about Apricot Brandy and I spotted this comment on the Charlie Chaplin cocktail. “The original recipe of this from the Old Waldorf Astoria bar book is equal parts sloe gin, apricot brandy and lime...
My second movie star lockdown cocktail was a Charlie Chaplin. A very fruity little fella composed of sloe gin, lime juice and apricot brandy. I had a few technical problems with the Mary Astor Painless Anaesthetic video so I may do that one again sometime, but a new Quarantini Time should be popping up here...
I attempted this once and ended up with an inedible block of chewy pastry surrounding a pile of undercooked apples – mmm – doesn’t this look nice? but Battenburg Belle offered to have a go, and of course created something divine. Fork holes! I think my first mistake was using wholemeal flour. Why? Because...
On Sunday a fabulous new cocktail recipe arrived from my lovely chum in Athens, Georgia – fellow film archivist Margie Clark. It was superb timing as Mr R was hot footing it over for Vincent Price Toad in the Hole after doing his radio show so I rustled up a pair of these to whet...
I’m going to have a big bruise on my bum after falling over at my humdinger of a birthday party last night. AGAIN I didn’t get to bed until 4am. What a shocker. I’m going to make a list of who rocked up with their 45rpm singles last night but I think there must have...
Today I am very excited to report that at last we have a Charlie Chaplin recipe to test. This is almost the Holy Grail for us (when Marilyn Monroe’s diaries are published in October we will have it!) and this is such a ridiculously exciting moment. Is this sad? That I’m beside myself with excitement...
