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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