Celebrate National Women’s Month with the Perfect Cocktail

Women should be celebrated every single day but March is National Women’s Month and a time when women and their contribution to society are heightened. Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions to American history. subsequent Presidents continued to proclaim a National Women’s History Week in March until 1987 when Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, each president has issued annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.”

 If there’s ever a reason to celebrate women it’s this month, so why not grab a couple of your closest friends and raise your glass to give a cheer for women! Here are some cocktail ideas from NY Spoon to help you get started. 

The Lucretia Mott 

Lucretia Mott was a vital player in the fight for women’s rights. She even helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention. As an added bonus her last name is also a brand of apple juice.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz whiskey

• Mott’s apple juice

• 2 paper cut-outs of Lucretia Mott’s face

• 1 wooden skewer

Directions

1. Tape your cut-outs of Lucretia Mott’s face back to back on a wooden skewer.

2. Pour whiskey into a glass and fill the rest with Mott’s apple juice.

3. Stick skewer in drink and celebrate Lucretia Mott’s accomplishments.

The Man-hattan 

If boys tried be make a cocktail this would be it. This actually doesn’t resemble a classic Manhattan cocktail in any way, but hey, they try. Show all those men that even if they can drink, you can drink better.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz whiskey

• 1 tallboy of choice (we chose Beck’s)

Directions:

1. Take a shot. Drink the beer. Outdrink all those boys.

The Tail 

Notice what word we left out of ****tail? Yeah. This is for after you down our “Man-hattan” and want to embrace your girly side and remember why we make better drinks in the first place.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Peach Schnapps

• Rose wine

• Lavender Soda (or regular seltzer water)

• Flowers

• Mason jar

Directions

1. Pour peach schnapps into a Mason jar.

2. Fill the rest of the glass halfway with Rose, and then fill to the top with a beverage of choice. Regular seltzer water would work here too.

3. Garnish with flowers – or edible glitter or other pink things or whatever decoration you want. This drink is all about celebrating yourself!

The Shirley Temperance 

Did you know that the early women’s rights movement was also tied to the Temperance Movement? Yeah that’s right – women covered all sorts of reform! In retrospect they probably wouldn’t like that we added vodka to this classically non-alcoholic drink…

Ingredients:

• Sprite

• Cherry syrup (you can use the syrup from the jar of Maraschino cherries)

• 2 oz Cherry vodka

• Maraschino cherries

• Whipped cream

Directions:

1. Pour a shot of cherry vodka into a glass. Fill the rest with Sprite. Add cherry syrup to taste.

2. Top with whipped cream and a cherry. Drink to not drinking and women’s reform?

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Sources:

https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/womens-history-month

https://spoonuniversity.com/recipe/drink-celebrate-women