1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

AMERICAN DRINKS

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Brandy Scaffa. Small Drink.

Take a long thin liqueur glass, put in half a liqueur-glassful of brandy and half of Maraschino ; add two dashes of Angostura bitters on the top.

Brandy Skin. Short Drink. Fill a tumbler with chipped ice, a teaspoonful of powdered sugar ; squeeze in half a lemon, add a teaspoonful of strawberry syrup, and half a wine- glassful of brandy, the paring of half a lemon. Shake well and strain off. Brandy Smash. Put three slices of lemon into a tumbler with a few slices of pine-apple and a dessertspoonful of sifted sugar ; fill up with shaven Wenham Lake ice, and a wineglass of brandy, and suck through straws. Champagne Cider. One gallon of plain syrup with three ounces of citric acid dissolved in a pint of water, to which add one ounce of caramel, a quarter of an ounce of essence of champagne cider, and three-quarters of an ounce of American foam. Ching Ching. Mix in a soda water tumbler a gill of liquid sunshine rum, one sliced orange, one drop of es-