1864 Bar Tender's Guide price $2 00 by Jerry Thomas

PREFACE.

Bank of England, a small drinking saloon that had been sot up "by a peripatetic American, at the doorxof which was placed a board covered •with the unique titles of the American mUed drinks supposed to bo pre pared within that limited establishment. The "Connecticut eye-open ers" and "Alabama fog-cutters," togethervrith-the "lightning-smashes" and the "thunderbolt-cocktails," created a piofoimd sensation in tho crowd assembled to peruse the Noctarian bill of faro, if they did not produce custom. It struck ua, then, timt a list of all tho social drinks —the composite beverages,if wo may call them so—of America, would rcaUy be one of the curiosities of jovial literature; and that if it was combined with a catalogue of the mixtures coraraon'to other nations, and made practicaUy useful by the addition of a concise description of the various processes for "browing" each, it would be a "blos.sing to ankind" There would bo no excuse for imbibmg,w;th such a book at w]the "villainous compounds" of bar-keeping Goths and Yandals, who know no moro of the amenities of bon vivant existence than a Hot- tentot can know of the bouquet of clinmpagne. „ • • "There's philosophy,"says Father Tom in tho drama, oven m a jug nf nunch" Ve claim the credit of"philosophy teaching by example," 1 n to no ordinary extent in tho composition of this volume; for our A.,exhibits the title of eighty-six different kinds of punches,together ZTa universe of cobblers,juleps, bitters,cups,slings, shrubs,&c., each Id .U of which tho reader is carefidly educated how to concoct in tho the perfection of this education, tho name, alone, choicest mnner. ho has travelled Europe and of Jerry recondite in this branch of tho spirit art. America m Olympus of tho bar at tho Metropolitan Hotel He has been J ^ presiding deity at tho Planter's House, St. ZlT nThas been the proprietor of one of the most recbercbe saloons ^New oLus as weU as in New York. His very name is synonymous in the lexicon of mixed drinks, with all that is rare and • To the "Wine Press," edited by F- S. Cozzens, Esq., we are indebted for the composition of .several valuable punches, and among them wo may naXZize the celebrated "Nuremburgh," and the equally fammis ^adeiphia Fish House" punch. The rest we owe to the msp.rat.ou of Jem/ZhomM himself, and as he is as inexorablo as the Medes and US principle that no exceUent ^ any thin- but excellent materials, wo conceive that we are..ate in as..crt. ing that whatever may be prepared affer his instructions ^ apeak eloquently for itself. "Good wine needs no bush, SbakespearQ tells us and over one of Jerry's mixtures eulogy is qmte as reUunaant.