1884 How to mix drinks. Bar keepers' handbook (1884)

— 31 — TO DEAL OUT TOM AND JERRY TO CUS- TOMERS. Take a small bar glass, and to one tablespoon ful of the above mixture add one wine glass of brandy, fill the glass with boiling water and grate a little nutmeg on top, then serve. Adepts at the bar, in serving Tom and Jerry, sometimes adopt a mixture of one-half brandy, one-fourth Jamaica rum, and one-half St. Croix rum, instead of brandy plain. This compound is usually mixed and kept in a bottle, and a wine glass is used to each tumbler of Tom and Jerry.

TOM AND JERRY COLD. This drink is prepared the same as the hot Tom and Jerry, with the exception of using cold water.

JOHN COLLINS. (Use extra large bar glass.)

Five or six dashes of lemon juice One small tablespoonful of sugar; One wine glass full of Holland gin Fill one-third of fine ice; Fill up with a bottle of plain soda, stir well with a spoon while filling with soda, remove the ice, then serve. WHISKEY TODDY. (Use a whiskey glass.) One-half teaspoonful of sugar, dissolved in a little water; One small lump of ice; Place the glass with whiskey bottle on the bar before the customer to help himself,