Forbidden Drinks

Wonderland Staff — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:48:04 +0000

Set during the prohibition era of North America and set in Atlantic City, Boardwalk Empire is set during sort of depressing times – and as we’re currently in the midst of a seemingly endless recession times are tough now. Fortunately we don’t have to find unscrupulous sources for our drinks, at least, and the team behind HBO’s hit show have come up with a few Boardwalk Empire inspired cocktails which we think are a perfect tonic to the stormy start to 2012. (There is still also time to enter our COMPETITION – but be quick as it closes at 5pm today, January 6th 2012.)

The drinks are;

1 – The Scofflaw Nation
You will need;
40ml bourbon
15ml Ratafia
10ml dry vermouth
10ml juice
10ml grenadine Dash orange bitters

Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and stir with a spoon until the mixture is ice cold. Then shake and double strain into a coupette glass. Squeeze a lemon over the top and garnish with a lemon twist, then serve for a refreshing, zesty experience.

2 – The Bootlegger’s Secret
40ml gin
10 ml grenadine
15 Amber vermouth
10 ml lime juice
Half egg white

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and then shake the living daylights out of it. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with apple and serve.

3 – Atlantic City Sour
50ml bourbon
20ml sugar syrup
25ml lemon juice
Half egg white
Dash bitters
10ml spiced wine

Add the bourbon, sugar, lemon juice, egg white and bitters to a cocktail shaker. Shake for a few seconds and then strain into a glass over ice. Float the spiced wine on the top and decorate with a lemon peel. This is a really great one for the end of a long 4 day week.

Cocktails kindly created by Marian Beke, head bartender at Nightjar.

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Boardwalk Empire – WONDERLAND competition

Wonderland Staff — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:30:15 +0000

To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray launch of the first series of HBO Home Entertainment’s critically acclaimed, epic crime drama Boardwalk Empire on 9 January, we’ve set up a brand new competition to warm the winter cockles.

Simply answer the following question to have a chance of winning the box set: Which member of the cast of Boardwalk Empire has recently been appointed as the face of Prada? Email your answers along with your name and address to info@wonderlandmagazine.com before 5pm on Friday the 6th January 2012.

Charting the birth of organised crime, the series chronicles the life and times of Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson (Steve Buscemi – The Big Lebowski, Armageddon), the Atlantic City treasurer whose double role as politician and bootlegger makes him the most powerful man on the Boardwalk.

Buscemi is accompanied by an outstanding all-star cast depicting real life people from gangster legend, including British stars Kelly MacDonald (Gosford Park, No Country for Old Men) and Stephen Graham (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, This is England,) as Al Capone, plus Michael Pitt (Hugo, The Dreamers) as Jimmy Boyd, Michael Shannon (Man of Steel, Machine Gun Preacher) as Agent Nelson Van Alden and Shea Whigham (Take Shelter, The Lincoln Lawyer) as Nucky’s younger brother, Eli Thompson.

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