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(Same-Sex) Wedding Bells Cocktail; or, Cambridge City Hall At Midnight Cocktail
Or, Now All of a Sudden I've Got Someone Who Wasn't A Spouse Before, That I Had No Responsibility For, Who Is Now Getting Claimed as a Spouse That I Now Have Financial Responsibility For Cocktail
Adapted from the Wedding Bells Cocktail in Barflies and Cocktails* by Harry McElhone

1/2 oz freshly-squeezed blood orange juice
1/2 oz Cherry Heering
1 oz gin (we used Plymouth)
1 oz Dubonnet (the red kind)

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled, ornate cocktail glass. Twist a bit of rind over the top to spray the surface of the drink with blood orange oil, and then rub it along the rim of the glass.

The following beverage is technically not a cocktail, and really, it's not a beverage so much as a demonstration that you have a steady hand and an overcrowded liquor cabinet:

Rainbow (Flag) Pousse-Café
We looked at the Rainbow Cocktail in the Savoy Cocktail Book and pousses-cafés from other sources, but the following is very, very adapted, because the relative weight of some boozes seems to have shifted since Harry Craddock's day

Very small, equal amounts:
Marie Brizard Parfait Amour (available at Wine Gallery, Brookline, and the Wine & Cheese Cask, Somerville)
Campari
Yellow Chartreuse
Green Chartreuse
Brandy (we used Laird's Bonded Apple Brandy, just recently available at Downtown Wine & Spirits, Somerville)

Starting with the Parfait Amour, gently pour each of these into a small, narrow glass to form a series of layers without mixing. (This can be accomplished by pouring slowly over the back of a small bar spoon inserted at an angle.)

Sip off each layer—if not with the great care that went into pouring them, then at least not as a single shot. Chase that syrupy-sweet taste out of your mouth with Fernet Branca.

*Recently, lovingly reprinted by Mud Puddle Books, and available at the Boston Shaker cocktail store-within-a-store at Grand, Somerville