November 2018 - Sadie Farrell - Irish Knockout

Sadie Farrell (fl. 1869)

Sadie Farrell (fl. 1869) was an alleged semi-folklorish American criminal, gang leader and river pirate known under the pseudonym Sadie the Goat.She is believed to have been a vicious street mugger in New York's "Bloody" Fourth Ward. Upon encountering a lone traveler, she would headbutt like a charging goat a man in the stomach and her male accomplice would hit the victim with a slingshot and then rob him. Sadie, according to popular underworld lore, was engaged in a long-time feud with a tough, six-feet-tall female bouncer Gallus Mag, who finally bit off Sadie's ear in a bar fight, as Mag was known to do, albeit usually with male trouble-makers. 

Folklore has it that, leaving the area in disgrace, she ventured to the waterfront area in West Side Manhattan. It was while wandering the dockyards in the spring of 1869 that she witnessed members of the Charlton Street Gang unsuccessfully attempting to board a small sloop anchored in mid-river. Watching the men being driven back across the river by a handful of the ship's crew, she offered her services to the men and became the gang's leader. Within days, she engineered the successful hijacking of a larger sloop and, with "the Jolly Roger flying from the masthead", she and her crew reputedly sailed up and down the Hudson and Harlem Rivers raiding small villages, robbing farm houses and riverside mansions, and occasionally kidnapping men, women and children for ransom. She was said to have made several male prisoners "walk the plank". 

She and her men continued their activities for several months and stashed their cargo in several hiding spots until they could be gradually disposed of through fences and pawn shops along the Hudson and East Rivers. By the end of the summer, the farmers had begun resisting the raids, attacking landing parties with gunfire. The group abandoned the sloop and Sadie returned to the Fourth Ward, where she was now known as the "Queen of the Waterfront". She then claimed to have made a truce with Gallus Mag, who returned Sadie's ear. Mag had displayed it in a pickled jar in the bar. Sadie kept the ear in a locket and wore it around her neck for the rest of her life.

The Cocktail:

Irish Knockout
1/2 oz orange liqueur
1 oz white tequila
1/2 oz Irish cream
(layer into shot)

Drinkability: 0
Drunkability: 5
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 4.5
Priority for Conservation: 5

Comments - Maybe as a shot? It's layered, but if you stir it up you can at least sip on it. Tastes kind of like a chocolate orange

From "Knockout Punch!" hosted by Irish Knockout

November, 2014 - The Trung Sisters - Monkey Gland

The Trung Sisters (ca 40 AD)

Trac and Nhi, were daughters of a powerful Vietnamese lord.  The Chinese ruled Vietnam until a Chinese commander raped Trac and killed her husband, Thi Sach.  In retaliation, the Trung Sisters organized a full-scale rebellion of 80,000 men and women.  Thirty-six of their army's generals were women, including Phung Thi Chinh, who had her baby on the battlefield.  She hoisted the newborn child onto her back, and continued fighting.  It is also said that the Trung sisters killed a tiger - and used the tiger's skin as paper to write a proclamation urging the people to follow them against the Chinese.  The sisters drove the Chinese out of Vietnam, and the people proclaimed Trac to be their ruler.  As queen, she abolished the hated tribute taxes which had been imposed by the Chinese.  She also attempted to restore a simpler form of government more in line with traditional Vietnamese values.  For the next three years the Trung sisters engaged in constant battles with the Chinese government in Vietnam.  Out-armed their troops were badly defeated in 43 AD.  Rather than accept defeat, popular lore says that both Trung sisters chose the traditional Vietnamese way of maintaining honor - they committed suicide.  Some stories say they drowned themselves in a river; others claim they disappeared into the clouds.

The Drink:

Monkey Gland

1 1/2 oz gin
1 oz orange juice
1 tsp Benedictine
2-4 dashes grenadine
over rocks in a highball

Drinkability:  4
Drunkability:  3
Taxic Diversity:  4
Accessibility:  4
Priority for Conservation:  5

Comments:  "I've given up letting gin matter."  - MPF, "a little tart"

From "Women Who Sought Revenge" hosted by Ball Buster

May, 2014 - Leanan Sidhe - Stiletto

Leanan Sidhe

In Celtic/Irish mythology, the Leanan Sidhe is a fairy spirit who takes on mortal lovers, inspires them to the greatest heights of creativity, and slowly drives them mad and kills them in the process.  The brilliance of Irish poets, in particular, and their short lives, wild temperaments and bouts of madness, are frequently attributed to the Leanan Sidhe.  It is also sometimes supposed that Whiskey does these same things, and that a Leanan Sidhe may be sometimes used as a metaphor for whiskey.  

The Drink:

Stiletto:
1 1/2 tsp amaretto, 
1 1/2 oz  whiskey, 
juice of 1/2 lemon

Drinkability:  3.5
Drunkability:  3
Taxic Diversity:  3
Accessibility:  5
Priority for Conservation:  3

Comments:  n/a

From "Muses" theme hosted by Alabazam

April, 2013 - Empress Jingu-Kogo - Sakura Tea

Empress Jingu-Kogo

A great Japanese Empress, who was traditionally considered the 15th ruler of Japan, as she sat on the Imperial Throne from the time of her husbands death in 201 A.D. until her son ascended in 269 A.D.  She is considered legendary, not in doubt of her existence, but because of many of the stories that surround her.  Of particular note is the legend that she held her late husbands seed inside her for over 3 years while she lead the armies of Japan to defeat and conquer parts of northern Korea, only giving birth to him after the campaign was completed.  She claimed this was possible, because her son was the god of war, and gave her the power to control armies as long as he was in her womb.

The Drink:

Sakura Tea

1 cup sakura (cherry blossom) tea
1/2 oz sake (junmai - filtered is best)

Drinkability
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From Sakura Matsuri (women of Japan) hosted by Alabazam

December, 2006 - Nyarr Pirates! - Lilith - Apfelpunsch

Lilith:

Lilith appears throughout Mesopotamian myth and Judeo-Christian texts alternately as a night goddess, or the first woman created by God in the Garden of Eden.  In the creation myth, she refuses to submit to Adam's will, and up and leaves the Garden.  There were no apples involved, however, there are lots of apples in this tasty cocktail.  Up in ya!  

The Drink:

Apfelpunsch
1 gallon apple cider
orange zest
lemon zest
6 oz apple brandy
one cinnamon stick

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2 (should be low but proportions are different, aka there can be a shot of rum in each glass)
Taxic Diversity: 2 (cider)
Accessibility: 3.5 (apple brandy could be difficult to find but rum people have)
Priority for Conservation: 5 (why would you just drink plain apple cider when you could drink this?)

from Narr Pirates! hosted by MG & VF

Pre-2008 - Eve - Adam & Eve

Adam and Eve (featuring Eve)
1 oz. Forbideen Fruit
1 oz. Gin
1 oz Congac
1 dash lemon juice

comments: first sip shocking or refreshing.
FR: “‘tastes like juicy juice!”

I: 4
II: 4
III: 2.5
IV: 2.5
V: 3

featured at Original Sin (hosted by Wild Eyed Rose)

***Archivist Note: We all know who Eve is - you should be ashamed if you need a wiki link.

Pre-2008 - Gaia - Gaia Cocktail

Gaia
1 small pecan
2 inches fresh lemongrass
1/2 oz. white rum
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp blue curacao
1/5 tsp butterscotch schnapps
2 oz. Hoegaarden beer

comments:
SS: “Seems like a lot of work for something that tastes like beer.”
Pretty color … that wears off on your teeth.

Featured at Original Sin (hosted by Wild Eyed Rose)


***Archivist Note: I think everyone should know who Gaia is already, but here's the WIKI anyway.

Pre-2008 - Helen of Troy - Helen's Own

Helen’s Own 
1 oz gin
1 oz dry vermouth
1/4 oz apricot brandy
1/4 oz orange juice

comments:
FR: “tastes like a candle store!”

Featured at Original Sin (hosted by Wild Eyed Rose)

***Archivist Note:  Information on Helen of Troy was not included.  Please see WIKI. 

Pre-2008 - Pandora - Magic Truce

Magic Truce 
1/4 oz. lemon juice
1/4 oz. orange juice
1 1/4 oz bourbon whiskey
1 oz drambuie
1/4 oz french vermouth

comments:

WER: “So good we almost forgot to rate it!”

featured at Original Sin (hosted by Wild Eyed Rose

***Archivist Note:  No information included on Pandora.  Please see WIKI.

2008 - Scathach - Kelvingrove

Scathach – “the shadowy one” – is a warrior queen and mistress of a school for young warriors. The school is located in Scotland on the island of Skye, reputedly named after Scathach. She initiates young men into the arts of war, as well as giving them the “friendship of her thighs”, that is to say, initiating them sexually. She grants three wishes to the hero Cuchulainn, because her daughter Uathach, being in love with him, has told him how to make her do it. Scathach is said to be the daughter of the king of
Scythia. Aoife, another fierce warrior queen, is reputed to be her sister, while Uathach, her daughter, is a fellow teacher at her school.

The Drink:

Kelvingrove 

1 1/2 oz. Drambuie

3/4 oz lillet blanc

1/2 oz parfait amour

1/2 oz orange juice

featured at Don’t Label Me! hosted by Silk Stockings