White Russian (cocktail) Kournikova (named after the tennis player, made with skimmed milk, i.e. a "skinny, low-fat" White Russian), a White Cuban (made with rum instead of vodka), or a Dirty Russian (made with chocolate milk instead of cream). White Russian (cocktail) A White Russian is a cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur (e.g., Kahlúa or Tia Maria), and cream served with ice in an Old Fashioned glass. Often milk will be used as an alternative to cream. The traditional cocktail known as a Black Russian, which first appeared in 1949, becomes a White Russian with the addition of cream. Neither drink is
Cocktail probable" the theory advanced by Låftman (1946), which Liberman summarizes as follows: In his book "Imbibe!" (2007), David Wondrich also speculates that "cocktail" is a reference to a practice for perking up an old horse by means of a ginger suppository so that the animal would "cock its tail up and be frisky." Several authors have theorized that cocktail may be a corruption of cock ale. There is a lack of clarity on the origins of cocktails. Traditionally cocktails were a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. But by the 1860s, a cocktail frequently included a liqueur. The first