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Magnolia (a la Simmons)

White magnolia blossom and seed pod, 1731
White magnolia blossom and seed pod, 1731
  • Beat up two new laid eggs
  • Add one liqueur glass of Curaçao
  • Half a wine glass of old brandy
  • One table-spoonful of sugar
  • Beat up well
  • Add a pint bottle of champagne
  • Mix by pouring from one glass to another until it attain a fleecy and soft appearance
  • Serve in a glass

This will be found a very nutritious drink, especially when the appetite is bad

American & Other Drinks by Leo Engel, 1878

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Pousse Cafe (Jersey Lily)

Actress and socialite Lillie Langtry photographed by William Downey, August 1885
Actress and socialite Lillie Langtry photographed by William Downey, August 1885
  • A pony-glass half-full maraschino
  • Fill up with brandy
  • Add five drops Angostura bitters
  • Be careful to keep colors separate
Modern American Drinks by George J. Kappeler, 1900

Note from Lost Cocktails: “The Jersey Lily” appears to be a reference to Emilie Charlotte Langtry (1853-1929), a British-American socialite, actress and producer.

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Fog Horn

Breech loading fog signal cannon, 1878, Popular Science Monthly Volume 13
Breech loading fog signal cannon, 1878, Popular Science Monthly Volume 13
  • Take a large tin horn – one that will hold a gallon
  • A pound of bar sugar
  • Half a dozen eggs
  • A quart of brandy
  • Half a pint of Jamaica Rum
  • Some cracked ice
  • Fill up with milk
  • Put the cover on the horn
  • Shake well
  • Serve from the horn in bar glasses
  • Grate nutmeg on top
McDonough’s Bar-Keeper’s Guide by Patsy McDonough, 1883
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Brace Up Saratoga

Print, our watering places--horse racing at Saratoga, Harper's Weekly, August 1865
Print, our watering places–horse racing at Saratoga, Harper’s Weekly, August 1865
  • Use large bar glass
  • 1 table-spoonful of fine white sugar
  • 2 or 3 dashes of Boker’s bitters
  • 3 or 4 dashes of lime juice
  • 2 dashes of Absinthe
  • 1 fresh egg
  • 1 wine-glass of brandy
  • 2 small lumps of ice
  • Shake thoroughly
  • Strain into another glass
  • Fill with seltzer water
Stuart’s Fancy Drinks by Thos. Stuart, 1896
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French Eye-Opener

Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A humorous image of two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching. 1830 Published: 1 January 1830
Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A humorous image of two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching. 1830 Published: 1 January 1830
  • Small glass
  • 1/3 good brandy
  • 1/3 cocktail bitters
  • 1/3 curaçao
Barkeepers’ Ready Reference, A. V. Bevill, 1871
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Nerve Food

Uncle Lubin in his flying machine by W. Heath Robinson (1902)
Uncle Lubin in his flying machine by W. Heath Robinson (1902)
  • Long glass
  • One fresh egg
  • A little sugar
  • Mix this
  • One-third sherry
  • One-third port
  • One-third brandy
  • Fill up with cracked ice
  • Pour in good milk to fill glass
  • Shake well
  • Strain
  • Serve
  • Nutmeg or lemon oil on top
Mixology; The Art of Preparing All Kinds of Drinks “An All Right Book.” by Joseph L. Haywood, Mixologist, 1898
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Humpty Dumpty

Sheet music cover, 1914
Sheet music cover, 1914
  • Fill large bar glass 2-3 full of shaved ice
  • 1 heaping teaspoonful bar sugar
  • 1 whole egg, broken in
  • 1/4 jigger Jamaica rum
  • 3/4 jigger brandy
  • Fill up with milk
  • Shake hard
  • Strain into tall shell glass
  • Grate nutmeg on top
  • Serve
Drinks, Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd., 1889
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Hickeys Favorite

  • Tall, thin glass
  • Two lumps of ice
  • Squeeze one-half lemon in glass
  • A squirt of absinthe
  • A squirt of curaçao
  • A good drink of whiskey, gin or brandy
  • Fill up with Krause’s syphon soda
  • Stir
  • Serve
Mixology; The Art of Preparing All Kinds of Drinks “An All Right Book.” by Joseph L. Haywood, Mixologist, 1898
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East India Cocktail

East India Company docks, 1844
East India Company docks, 1844
  • Use large bar glass
  • Fill the glass with fine ice
  • 1 teaspoonful of raspberry syrup
  • 1 teaspoonful of Curaçao
  • 2 or 3 dashes of bitters
  • 2 dashes of Maraschino
  • 1 wine glass of brandy
  • Stir up with a spoon
  • Strain into a cocktail glass and
  • Twist a piece of lemon peel on top
Scientific Bar-Keeping by Joseph W. Gibson, 1884