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Kohinoor

Queen Alexandra wearing the Kohinoor in her coronation crown. 9 August 1902
Queen Alexandra wearing the Kohinoor in her coronation crown. 9 August 1902
  • One the edge of a large tumbler, break a new laid egg, upon which
  • Pour a liqueur glass of Benedictine, and a
  • Table-spoonful of raspberry syrup,
  • Shake up well with a little ice; having done so,
  • Half fill with champagne;
  • Balance with soda water,
  • Stirring at the same time with a spoon
  • Strain through a fine sieve
  • Look heavenwards and drink;
  • “Result,” bliss
American & Other Drinks by Leo Engel, 1878
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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
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Ping Pong Cocktail

This recipe, arranged by James E. Bennett, of the Broken Heart Cafe, 16 South Broadway, St. Louis, Mo., won the Police Gazette Bartenders’ Medal for 1903.

  • Use mixing glass
  • Three dashes lemon juice
  • One-half jigger sloe gin
  • One-half jigger Cream-Yvette
  • Fill glass with fine ice
  • Mix and strain in cocktail glass
  • Add cherry

(Do not get too sweet)

The Hoffman House Bartenders Guide by Charles S. Mahoney, 1912

Vermouth can be substituted for Cream-Yvette.

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Bishop

Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance, 1870.
Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance, 1870.
  • One teaspoonful sugar in large bar-glass
  • Two dashes lemon juice
  • The juice of 1/2 orange
  • Fill glass 3/4 full shaved ice
  • One dash seltzer water
  • Two dashes Jamaica rum
  • Fill up with Burgundy
  • Shake well
  • Ornament with fruit, and
  • Serve with straws
New Bartender’s Guide, I. & M. Ottenheimer, 1914
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Gothic Punch

Gothic architectural ornament, 1831
Gothic architectural ornament, 1831

(For a party of ten.)

(From a recipe in the possession of Bayard Taylor, Esq.)

  • Four bottles still Catawba
  • One bottle claret
  • Three oranges, or one pineapple
  • Ten table-spoonfuls of sugar
  • Let this mixture stand in a very cold place, or in ice, for one hour or more, then
  • Add one bottle of champagne
How to Mix Drinks or The Bon-Vivant’s Companion by Jerry Thomas (Formerly principal Bar-tender at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and the Planter’s House, St. Louis), 1862
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Lalla Rookh

Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore, 1817
Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore, 1817
  • A mixing-glass half-full fine ice
  • Add one pony vanilla cordial
  • One-half jigger brandy
  • Half a jigger rum
  • A small spoonful fine sugar
  • A whiskey-glass full cream
  • Shake well
  • Strain into a long thin bar-glass
Modern American Drinks by George J. Kappeler, 1900
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Sazerac Cocktail

From “Life on the Mississippi” by CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (alias Mark Twain), 1883
From “Life on the Mississippi” by CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (alias Mark Twain), 1883

As served at The St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana.

A famous Southern cocktail, which has the biggest call in the market in the South and replaces our Northern Manhattan.

  • Smash lump of sugar in old fashion cocktail glass
  • Add three drops Peychaud Bitters
  • Two drops Angostura
  • One drink good rye whisky
  • Ice and strain to another ice-cold old-fashion cocktail glass with a dash of Absinthe in, then
  • Squeeze oil of lemon peel.
Beverages de Luxe, Edited by Geo. R. Washburn and Stanley Bronner, 1914
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Navy Cocktail

US Navy Flying Squadron, 1898
US Navy Flying Squadron, 1898
  • Take one-half a cocktail-glass of dry gin
  • One-half a cocktail-glass of Italian Vermouth, and
  • Two dashes of orange bitters
  • Fill the mixing-glass with ice
  • Shake well and strain into a bar-glass
Louis’ Mixed Drinks by Louis Muckensturm, 1906