Description
STRAWBERRY COCKTAIL
Pass half a pound of strawberries through a fine sieve and put the juice in a shaker, with the juice of an orange and a dash of whisky or brandy. Add some pieces of ice, shake well and serve.
SOFT COCKTAIL
(For four People)
Here is a cocktail for our American friends, who would, I am sure, quite appreciate it! As a matter of fact it is very good, but more suitable, perhaps, for the children at one of their parties.
Put four glasses of orange juice into a shaker, add a few drops of bitters with a pinch of mixed spices. Add ice, shake well, and serve with a Maraschino cherry in each glass.
LEMON COCKTAIL
Put five glasses of sweetened lemon juice into the shaker with a teaspoonful of Angostura Bitters, Add ice and shake very hard.
ICED TEA
(Six or eight Persons)
Very few people know how to make iced tea. The following is the best recipe out of several the authors have tried.
Fill a large glass jug with small pieces of ice. Put on top of the ice a lemon cut into slices (not the ends), and six heaping spoonfuls of castor or granulated sugar. Pour over a quart of freshly made, very hot tea. The boiling water must not be allowed to stand more than three minutes on the tea. Allow for each person a heaping tea-spoonful of China or the best Ceylon tea leaves. If desired, the iced tea can be made in individual tall glasses. In this case fill each glass with pieces of ice, put on top a thiddsh slice of lemon and a puddingspoonful of sugar before pouring in the tea.
GRANITA DI GAFFE
(Iced Coffee)
Allow a breakfast cup of good strong coffee to each person. Let it cool, sweeten to taste and shake well with finely chipped or shaved ice. Put a spoonful of whipped cream on the top of each glass. Serve before the ice has melted.
LEMON SQUASH
(Six Persons)
The squeezed juice of one orange and four lemons, sweetened to taste. Add ice, shaved or in pieces, and three pints of plain water or syphon soda.
GINGER POP
It is to be hoped that the recipe for such a simple and old-fashioned drink as ginger pop will be useful.
It is certainly inexpensive, and would not look in the least commonplace in the sophisticated surroundings of a modern party.
Take two ounces of well-bruised ginger, two ounces of cream of tartar, and two pounds of soft white sugar. Put these ingredients into an earthenware vessel, pour over them two gallons of boiling water; allow this to get cold, and add two tablespoonfuls of yeast, then let the whole thing stand for twenty-four hours, after which skim it, and keep it for three days in a cool place before bottling. See that your corks are sound, and tie them down carefully.
The quantities given above will provide a full glass each for at least thirty people.
LEMON WATER
Take the whites of four eggs and beat them to a very stiff froth, put this into a jug with the juice of three lemons, add three tumblerfuls of cold water and sufficient sugar, stirring well. Pour this through a very fine strainer into four tumblers half-filled with crushed ice. There should be no visible trace of the egg whites. This drink is not only delicious, but very beneficial in cases of slight fever.
COCOANUT PUNCH
Grate the flesh of a fresh cocoanut into a jug and add the juice of two lemons and one orange, sugar and a pinch of mixed spices (the kind used for cakes being the best). Add four tumblers of cold water and let it stand for one hour on ice, then strain the punch into a glass jug and keep it on ice until you are ready to drink it.
ICED TEA
This is the way in which tea is more often served in some tropical places, and it is very refreshing. The important thing is that the tea should be freshly made and frot allowed to get cold. Half fill a tumbler for each person with crushed ice, on the top of which place one slice of lemon. Have the tea made in the ordinary way and pour it over each tumbler, adding sugar or not, according to taste. The reason for the tea being hot when poured out is that if allowed to get cold, in conjunction with the lemon, it tastes very bitter.
