Italian greyhound: uses Campari and vodka instead of gin. Salty dog: has a salted rim on the glass and uses vodka sometimes.ĭalmatian: has black pepper syrup and vodka. Vodka greyhound: uses vodka instead of gin. Garnish įor the greyhound, twist of lime or lemon. The root cause of this is for taste preferences and to serve a broader market. Also, more currently, both the greyhounds and the salty dogs are more often made with vodka not gin. The reason that most cocktails during and just after prohibition were prepared with salted or sugared rims is because the quality of alcoholic beverages was not so appealing. Add all ingredients to a cocktail tin filled with ice. The most conspicuous of these is the martini which, before 1945, would invariably have been made with gin. Rosemary simple syrup: Boil equal parts sugar and water with 1 rosemary sprig per cup. As vodka's popularity grew after the war and gin's popularity waned, many of the popular cocktails persisted, albeit with vodka substituted for gin. This cocktail was served at Greyhound's popular restaurant chain that was located at bus terminals, called 'Post House'."īefore 1945, vodka was an uncommon spirit and most drinks we think of today as "classic cocktails" and which call for vodka, originally would have contained gin. His recipe consists of nothing but gin, grapefruit juice and ice.Ī recipe for a similar cocktail with the name "Greyhound" appears in Harper's Magazine in 1945 (volume 191, page 461) thus: "The cocktails were made of vodka, sugar, and canned grapefruit juice - a greyhound. According to Wikipedia, the Greyhound cocktail gets its name from a drink that was served in the ’40s at restaurants found in. I mean, your average watering holes don’t typically serve cocktails infused with rosemary. It has a sleek name and the ingredients are somewhat classy. If the rim of the glass has been salted, the drink is instead. This Greyhound cocktail is a sophisticated sort of cocktail. Craddock describes his recipe as ".a variation of the Grapefruit Cocktail", suggesting that such cocktails were already in common use before his book was written. A greyhound is a cocktail consisting of grapefruit juice and gin mixed and served over ice. The earliest known mention of a cocktail of this description is in bartender and author Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930.
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