Hot Toddy

2 oz single malt Scotch (or other spirit)
3.5 oz boiling water
1 cube (tsp) demarara sugar
lemon peel*

Muddle the sugar (and lemon peel*) in the bottom of an earthenware mug.  Add boiling water and stir to dissolve sugar.  Add Scotch and stir.

*Addition of a lemon peel makes this a Skin.

Whisky Skin

2 oz Scotch
1 piece of pithless lemon peel
1 tsp demarara sugar (inauthentic but optional)

Muddle lemon peel [and sugar] in a dash of boiling water, then add Scotch and more water to the top.

Hot Toddy

2 oz spirit (recommend: dark rum, Cognac, single malt Scotch [esp. if peaty], Irish whiskey, genever, rye, bourbon)
1 tsp demarara sugar
3/4 oz hot water

Stir in an earthenware mug.

Morning Glory Fizz

2 oz blended Scotch
3/4 Tbsp simple syrup
1/4 oz lime juice
1/2 oz lemon juice
3-4 dashes absinthe
1 egg white
soda water

Shake well with ice; strain into a tall glass; top with soda; drink immediately.

69th Regiment Punch

1 oz Irish whiskey
1 oz Scotch whisky
1 tsp sugar
1 piece of lemon
4 oz hot water

Combine in an earthen mug.

Modernista

2 oz Scotch
1/2 oz Jamaican rum
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1-2 dashes absinthe
1-2 dashes orange bitters

Shake; strain; lemon twist; marasca cherry.

Mamie Taylor

2 oz Scotch
1 splash fresh lemon juice
3 oz ginger ale

Add lemon juice to a highball glass, then add ice, Scotch, ginger ale, and stir briefly.

Godfather

2 oz Scotch
1 oz amaretto

Stir with ice in a rocks glass.

Blood and Sand

3/4 oz Scotch whisky
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
3/4 oz kirschwasser
3/4 oz orange juice

Shake; strain; cocktail glass.

Bobby Burns

2 oz Highland malt scotch whisky
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
1/2 oz Benedictine

Stir; strain; cocktail glass.

Rob Roy

2 oz blended Scotch whisky
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz Angostura bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; cherry.

Improved cocktail

2 oz spirit
1 tsp maraschino liqueur
1 tsp syrup
1/2 tsp absinthe
2 dashes bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass or OF with rocks; orange or lemon twist.

Fancy cocktail

2 oz spirit
1/2 oz curacao
1 tsp syrup
2 dashes bitters

Stir; strain; cocktail glass; orange twist.

Sling

1 oz spirit

1 tsp sugar

Stir without ice, and sling.