Posted on by kpelesky@gmail.com

Harvard Cocktail

Main reading room, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, c.1915
Main reading room, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, c.1915
  • One dash gum-syrup
  • Three dashes Boker’s bitters
  • Half a jigger Italian vermouth
  • Half a jigger brandy
  • Seltzer

Mixing glass half-full of fine ice; one dash gum-syrup, three dashes Boker’s bitters, half a jigger Italian vermouth, half a jigger of brandy. Mix and strain into a cocktail-glass, then fill up with seltzer and serve quickly.

from The Gorham Cocktail Book, 1905