Description
To Regain the Tight-Rope Walker’s Balance, the Juggler’s Hair Split Precision
Brandy and Soda
Into a large glass pour one wine-glass of brandy and add a few small lumps of ice. Fill up the glass with plain soda water. This is sometimes called a Stone Wall.
Whiskey Sour
Use a small bar glass. To a large teaspoonful of powdered sugar dissolved in a little seltzer water, add the juice of a small lemon. Pour in a wine-glass of Bourbon or Rye whiskey. Fill the glass full of shaved ice, shake up and strain into a claret glass. Ornament with berries before serving.
White Plush
Pour a small glass half full of Bourbon or Rye whiskey. Fill the glass with fresh milk. Drink without stirring.
Orange Gin Sparkle
One and a half ounces of gin, three dashes of orange bitters, one dash Angostura bitters; twist piece of lemon peel and place in container, add ice and shake well. Before serving add a squirt of syphon seltzer.
Palm Beach Special
Two-thirds dry gin, one-sixth grapefruit juice, one-sixth either French or Italian Vermouth. Place in shaker, add ice. Shake well and serve in cocktail glass.
Gin Rickey
One portion Gordon gin in tumbler, juice of half a lime. Leave lime in glass with cracked ice and add soda water.
Gin and Italian with Sherry
Use shaker. One-half portion gin, one-half portion Italian Vermouth, exactly one tablespoonful Sherry, one dash of bitters. Fill with ice, mix, shake and strain.
Whiskey Fruit Cocktail
In shaker place one part Scotch or Rye, one part orange or grapefruit juice. Ice, shake well and serve. One dash of Angostura bitters if added will enhance the delicacy of the taste.
Planter’s Punch
Use long glass. Squirt in the juice of a fresh lime, two portions of sugar, a pony of water, four portions of old Jamaica rum. Fill glass with shaved ice, shake well, add dash of a red pepper if desired, and serve very cold with long straws.
Jamaica Rum Cocktail
A full pony of Jamaica rum, two dashes gum syrup, two dashes orange bitters, two dashes Angostura bitters, ice, shake and pour into cocktail glass.
Plymouth Cocktail
Two parts Plymouth gin, one-third Italian or French Vermouth, fill with ice. Shake well and serve with a twisted piece of lemon or orange peel.
