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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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Brandy Scaffa

Cherry time, 1906, by Salvatore Postiglione

(Use a sherry glass.)

  • One-quarter glass of raspberry syrup
  • One-quarter glass of Maraschino
  • One-quarter glass of Chartreuse (green)
  • Top it off with Brandy
  • Serve

This drink must be properly prepared to prevent the different colors from running into each other, but must each have a separate appearance.

Harry Johnson’s New and Improved Bartender’s Manual, 1882

Note from Lost Cocktails:

Chartreuse Verte (Shameless affiliate link) – Created in 1764 as a lighter alternative to elixir vegetal. The details of the original recipes’ 130 ingredients are still a well-kept secret. Chartreuse Verte is aged 2-3 years in oak casks before being thinned down to an average strength of 55% ABV before it is bottled.

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Corpse Reviver

Rising of a corpse galvanized by a primitive galvanic battery. 1836
Rising of a corpse galvanized by a primitive galvanic battery. 1836

  • Take a long, thin liqueur glass, which
  • Fill with equal portions of
  • Noyeau,
  • Maraschino, and
  • Yellow chartreuse respectively
  • Taking care not to mix the ingredients, and
  • Take off at one draught
American and Other Iced Drinks mainly by Charlie Paul, 1902
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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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Cuban Cocktail

British map of Cuba 1680
British map of Cuba 1680

  • Take two dashes of orange bitters
  • One dash of Maraschino
  • One liqueur-glass of French Vermouth, and
  • Two liqueur-glasses of dry Spanish sherry
  • Fill the mixing-glass with ice
  • Stir well and
  • Strain into a cocktail-glass
Louis’ Mixed Drinks by Louis Muckensturm, 1906
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H. P. Whitney Cocktail

1915 Kentucky Derby winner Regret with trainer James Rowe (left) and owner Harry Payne Whitney.
1915 Kentucky Derby winner Regret with trainer James Rowe (left) and owner Harry Payne Whitney.

  • Take two dashes of orange bitters
  • One dash of Maraschino
  • One liqueur-glass of French Vermouth, and
  • Two liqueur-glasses of dry gin
  • Fill the mixing-glass with ice
  • Stir well and
  • Strain into a cocktail-glass
  • Serve with an orange peel and a queen olive
Louis’ Mixed Drinks by Louis Muckensturm, 1906
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Flip Flap

(Leo’s specialties)

  • Fill up a sherry wine glass two-thirds full of Maraschino, yellow Chartreuse, Kummel in equal proportions, and
  • One dash of Kirschenwasser
  • Having done this, add the white of an egg with
  • A little sugar
  • Shake or swizzle well in a tumbler and
  • Serve in a thin glass
American & Other Drinks by Leo Engel, 1878
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Reviver

1890 Puck magazine cartoon. A woman labeled "South American Trade" is shown fainted in a chair. U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine tries to revive her with a bellows labeled "WIND". Puck tugs at his coattail and holds up a bottle labeled "FREE TRADE ELIXIR". Caption: SURE CURE
1890 Puck magazine cartoon. A woman labeled “South American Trade” is shown fainted in a chair. U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine tries to revive her with a bellows labeled “WIND”. Puck tugs at his coattail and holds up a bottle labeled “FREE TRADE ELIXIR”. Caption: SURE CURE

  • A sherry-glass one-third full maraschino
  • One-third noyau, and
  • One-third yellow chartreuse
Modern American Drinks by George J. Kappeler, 1900