- Take one liqueur-glass of Creme d’Yvette
- Two liqueur-glasses of dry gin, and
- One dash of Maraschino
Fill the mixing-glass with ice; stir well and strain into a cocktail-glass. Serve with a pitted olive, or three blue-berries on a toothpick.
Vermouth Cocktail
- Two dashes Boker’s or Peyschaud bitters
- One jigger Italian vermouth
- One piece lemon peel
Mixing-glass half-full fine ice, two dashes Boker’s or Peyschaud bitters, one jigger Italian vermouth. Mix well, strain into cocktail-glass; add a piece of lemon peel.
The Gorham Cocktail Book, 1905
Tiger’s Milk
- To a quart of milk put in a half-gill each of peach brandy and apple-jack
- Sweeten with powdered sugar and put in
- Two drops each of oil of cloves, cinnamon, and orange, and
- Grate a little nutmeg on the top
- Beat the white of an egg to a stiff froth
- Whip it in and
- Serve at once
One Hundred & One Beverages by May E. Southworth, 1904
Irish Whiskey Punch
This is the genuine Irish beverage. It is generally made
- One-third pure whiskey
- Two-thirds boiling water, in which the sugar has been dissolved, and
- Lemon peel according to taste.
American & Other Drinks by Leo Engel, 1878
Fairbank’s Cocktail
- 10 Dashes Apricot Brandy
- 1 Jigger Rye Whiskey
- 1 Dash Angostura Bitters
Serve in old fashion glass.
Straub’s Manual of Mixed Drinks by Jacques Straub, 1913
Early Bird
- Use star champagne glass.
- Fill 3/4 full of syphon seltzer
- Add 3 dashes of absinthe
- Float small quantity of brandy on top, and serve.
Daly’s Bartenders’ Encyclopedia by Tim Daly, 1903
Hoffman Morning Bracer
- Using mixing glass full of shaved ice.
- Add one-third absinthe
- Two-thirds Vermouth
Shake it well and serve in Delmonico glass, using siphon.
The Hoffman House Bartenders Guide by Charles S. Mahoney, 1912
Boating Punch
- Use large bar-glass
- Three-quarters full cracked ice
- Two teaspoonfuls bar sugar
- Two dashes lemon juice
- One dash lime juice
- One pony brandy
- One wine-glass St. Croix rum
Stir; dress with fruit and serve with straws.
New Bartender’s Guide, I. & M. Ottenheimer, 1914
Rip Van Winkle Toast
Here is your goot helt,
Und your family’s goot helt,
Und may you all live long und brosper.
Nectar for 90 Degrees in the Shade
- Put a lemon ice in a soda-water glass
- Add 1/2 gill of whisky and a
- Bottle of iced soda-water