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Hugo Birger: The Scandinavian Artists’ Lunch at Café Ledoyen, Paris: Varnishing Day 1886
Hugo Birger: The Scandinavian Artists’ Lunch at Café Ledoyen, Paris: Varnishing Day 1886

This combination of Latin and French words, signifying, literally, after coffee, is applied to certain combinations of cordials, liqueurs and spirits, in very small quantities, usually partaken of after dinner, and sometimes after breakfast. The recipes for these are neither many nor various. We subjoin a few below.

140

  • Fill wine glass one third part each with
  • Cognac
  • Kerschwasser
  • Curaçao
  • Use small piece of ice

141

  • Fill wine glass one third part each with
  • Cognac
  • Maraschino
  • Curaçao
  • Use small piece of ice

142

  • Fill wine glass
  • One fifth part with Maraschino
  • Two-fifths Curaçao
  • Two-fifths Kerschwasser
  • Use small piece of ice

143

  • Fill a small wine glass
  • Half with Maraschino
  • One-fourth with Chartreuse
  • One-fourth Brandy
  • Use small piece of ice
Haney’s Steward & Barkeeper’s Manual: A Complete and Practical Guide by Jesse Haney, 1869

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The Angelus

The Evening Angel (L’Ange du soir veillant sur une ville), 1848, Alexandre Cabanel.
  • Fill a large glass two-thirds full of fine ice
  • 1 dash of gum
  • 1 dash of absinthe
  • a little vino vermouth
  • 1 pony of Old Tom gin
  • 2 dashes of orange bitters
  • 2 dashes of curaçao
  • Stir well
  • Strain into a fancy glass
The Flowing Bowl by The Only William (William Schmidt), 1892

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Ambassador Bayard

Caricature of The Hon TF Bayard, as depicted in Vanity Fair in 1894 while ambassador to Britain
Caricature of The Hon TF Bayard, as depicted in Vanity Fair in 1894 while ambassador to Britain

  • Large glass full fine ice
  • One-fifth Cognac brandy
  • One-fifth Benedictine
  • One-fifth Curaçao
  • One-fifth Chartreuse
  • One-fifth Maraschino
  • Shake well
  • Strain into fancy glass
  • One drop angostura on top
  • Serve with cherry
Mixology; The Art of Preparing All Kinds of Drinks “An All Right Book.” by Joseph L. Haywood, Mixologist, 1898

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West India Couperee

Ink and watercolor drawing by Elis Chiewitz of Brandy-Distiller Lundholm, described by Carl Michael Bellman in Fredman's Songs, No. 6, with the words "If ever thy wife kissed thy chin in her life, she'd have been drunk." between 1801 and 1839
Ink and watercolor drawing by Elis Chiewitz of Brandy-Distiller Lundholm, described by Carl Michael Bellman in Fredman’s Songs, No. 6, with the words “If ever thy wife kissed thy chin in her life, she’d have been drunk.” between 1801 and 1839

  • Use large soda glass
  • Take 1-1/2 pony-glass of brandy
  • 1 pony-glass Maraschino or Curaçao
  • Fill the glass one-third full of vanilla ice cream
  • Mix thoroughly
  • Fill the glass nearly full with plain soda
  • Grate a little nutmeg on top
  • Serve
The Bar-Tender’s Guide by Jerry Thomas, 1887

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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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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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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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White Lion

Lewis Carroll: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. (1893)
Lewis Carroll: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. (1893)

  • Use small bar glass
  • Take 1 tea-spoonful of pulverized white sugar
  • 1/2 a lime (squeeze out juice and put rind in glass)
  • 1 wine-glass Santa Cruz rum
  • 1 tea-spoonful of Curaçao
  • 1 tea-spoonful of raspberry syrup
  • Fill the glass half-full of shaved ice
  • Shake up well and
  • Strain into a cocktail glass
The Bar-Tender’s Guide by Jerry Thomas, 1887
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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
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Pacific Union

Pacific Union Club, Willis Polk, 1913
Pacific Union Club, Willis Polk, 1913

  • Put a lump of ice in a glass and
  • Two dashes of gum syrup; on this
  • Two dashes of Curaçao
  • Three of Boker’s bitters, a
  • Wine-glass of Italian vermouth and
  • One pony of rye whisky
  • Shake
  • Thoroughly mix, and
  • Strain into a glass in which there is a twist of lemon-peel
One Hundred & One Beverages by May E. Southworth, 1904

The Pacific-Union Club is a social club in San Francisco, at the top of Nob Hill, founded in 1889 as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854).