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The official definition of cocktail is a cold wine drink or distilled alcohol mixed with flavoring ingredients. This is a fairly broad definition, but it reflects the modern practice of talking about almost any mixed drink as a cocktail.
The first published definition of a cocktail appeared in an editorial in The Balance and the Columbian Repository of 1806. It reads: The cocktail is a stimulating alcohol composed of all kinds of alcohol, sugar and water. It is this definition of ingredients that we continue to use when talking about the perfect cocktail.
When was the cocktail created?
People have been mixing drinks for centuries, but it was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that the cocktail's predecessors became popular enough to be recorded in history books. It is not clear where, who and from what created the original cocktail, but it seems to be a specific drink, not a category of mixed drinks during that time.
Where does the name cocktail come from?
There are many stories about the origin of the name cocktail. As always, some are ridiculous, some plausible, and who knows - maybe some are really true. However, the stories are interesting:
1. Popular story behind the name of cocktail refers to the cocktail (or cock-tail), which was used as a decoration for a colonial drink. There are no official references in written recipes to such decoration.
2. In the story The Spy (James Fenimore Cooper, 1821), the heroine Betty Flanagan invented the cocktail during the revolution. She was probably not a real woman, but history has it that she was a pub keeper who served a drink to French soldiers in 1779, adorned with feathers from her neighbor's rooster.
3. The theory of the rooster's tail is also influenced by the colors of the mixed ingredients, which may resemble the colors of the rooster's tail. That would be a good story today, given our colorful set of ingredients, but at the time, drinks were visually boring.
4. The British edition of Bartender published a history from 1936 of English sailors from decades ago, who were served mixed drinks in Mexico. The drinks were mixed with Cola de Gallo (a rooster's tail), a long root with a bird-like shape.
5. Another cocktail story refers to the remnants of ale in barrels called rooster tails. The tails of different types of spirits are mixed together and sold as a cheaper mixed drink of (understandably) dubious origin.
6. Another ridiculous "origin" tells of a singing ale, a mush of ale mixed with anything to feed the fighting roosters.
7. There is a strange story about an American innkeeper who kept alcohol in a ceramic vessel in the shape of a rooster. When his customers wanted a new drink, they patted the rooster's tail.
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