Three More Equal Parts: The Simplest Cocktail Recipes Expanded

It doesn’t get much easier than this: equal measures of three ingredients to make these six fantastic cocktails from only eight bottles – and now I have an excuse to make a new Venn Diagram (here is last week’s).

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass or an old fashioned glass with a big cube of ice.  Garnish with an orange twist.

• Bijou: 1 ounce Green Chartreuse, 1 ounce gin, 1 ounce sweet vermouth, dash of orange bitters
• Boulevardier: 1 ounce bourbon, 1 ounce Campari, 1 ounce sweet vermouth
• Contessa:  1 ounce Aperol, 1 ounce gin, 1 ounce dry vermouth
• Dry Negroni: 1 ounce Campari, 1 ounce gin, 1 ounce dry vermouth
• Negroni: 1 ounce Campari, 1 ounce gin, 1 ounce sweet vermouth
• Old Pal: 1 ounce Campari, 1 ounce rye, 1 ounce dry vermouth