Niagara Club Spray Cocktail

Niagara Falls, 1912
Niagara Falls, 1912

As served at The Niagara Club, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

  • One-fourth Italian Vermouth
  • One-fourth French Vermouth
  • Two-fourths Gordon Dry Gin
  • Two dashes Orange Bitters
  • Two dashes Yellow Chartreuse
  • Stir well
  • Use Champagne glass, fill with Carbonic.
  • One lump of ice
  • Slice orange
  • Serve
Beverages de Luxe, Edited by Geo. R. Washburn and Stanley Bronner, 1914

Yale Cocktail

  • 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.

Louis’ Mixed Drinks by Louis Muckensturm, 1906

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

Editorial cartoon depicting the New York mayoral race between Seth Low and candidates backed by Tammany Hall, Wright, Grant (1904).
Editorial cartoon depicting the New York mayoral race between Seth Low and candidates backed by Tammany Hall, Wright, Grant (1904).
  • 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

Early Bird

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, circa 1867
Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables, circa 1867
  • 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

Brain Duster

Robert Fludd, 1619
Robert Fludd, 1619
  • A mixing-glass half-full of fine ice
  • Two dashes gum syrup
  • One pony absinthe
  • One-half pony Italian vermouth
  • One-half pony whiskey
  • Mix well
  • Strain into thin glass
  • Fill with Seltzer
Modern American Drinks by George J. Kappeler, 1900

New York Raiser

Southern Manhattan seen from the Woolworth Building, 1913.
Southern Manhattan seen from the Woolworth Building, 1913.
  • Take a lump of sugar
  • Rub on a lemon so as to get a little of the oil on the sugar
  • Put on one dash of Angostura bitters
  • Serve in a high-ball glass, and
  • Fill with sparkling red Burgundy
Louis’ Mixed Drinks by Louis Muckensturm, 1906