Clicquot Club

A glass bottle of Clicquot Club Ginger Ale, the product for which the company was best known for.
A glass bottle of Clicquot Club Ginger Ale, the product for which the company was best known for.
  • Slice an unpeeled cucumber into a
  • Quart of good cider
  • Cover the pitcher and
  • Stand in a cool place for an hour
  • Strain and add to the cider a
  • Quart of ginger ale and
  • Serve at once
One Hundred & One Beverages by May E. Southworth, 1904

Horse’s Neck

"Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth" (1909)
“Always Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth” (1909)
  • Use a large thin bar glass
  • Peel a lemon in one long string
  • Place in a glass with one end projecting over the edge of glass
  • Add a large piece of clean ice, and
  • Fill the glass with imported ginger ale

A temperance drink which is refreshing and has an appetizing and inviting appearance.

Daly’s Bartenders’ Encyclopedia by Tim Daly, 1903

Oyster Cocktail

Colchester Pyefleet Oysters, 1916
Colchester Pyefleet Oysters, 1916
  • A few dashes lemon juice
  • One dash tabasco sauce
  • Teaspoonful vinegar
  • A few dashes tomato catsup
  • Six Blue Point oysters
  • Pepper and salt to taste

A few dashes lemon juice in a tumbler, add a dash of tabasco sauce, a teaspoonful of vinegar, a few dashes tomato catsup, six Blue Point oysters, with all their liquor; season to taste with pepper and salt. Mix and serve with small fork or spoon in the glass.

The Gorham Cocktail Book, 1905

At the Sign of the Fox

Drawing of five species of foxes, Encyclopedia Americana, 1920, Vol. 11
Drawing of five species of foxes, Encyclopedia Americana, 1920, Vol. 11 (1) Cape Fox or Lalande’s Dog, (2) Arctic Fox, (3) Side-striped Jackal or Quaha, (4) Silver Fox, (5) Corsac
  • Boil a pound of sugar and a quart of water for five minutes;
  • Strain
  • Take the leaves from twelve stalks of mint
  • Chop fine and pound them to a pulp
  • Add them and the juice of two lemons to the sugar and water
  • Strain
  • Turn into an ice-cream freezer and stir now and then until the mixture is frozen like wet snow
  • Serve in punch-glasses
One Hundred & One Beverages by May E. Southworth, 1904