1891 Drinks à La Mode by Mrs de Salis

AMERICAN DRINKS

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Eye Opener. Short Drink.

Fill a tumbler with chipped ice, put in a tea- spoonful of powdered sugar and a new-laid egg ; add a liqueur-glass of brandy and one of rum. Shake well and strain off

Floster. American Sensation.

A gill of sherry, half a gill of noyeau, six peach leaves, three slices of lemon, half an ounce of sugar, a bottle of iced soda water, and a lump of ice. Ginger Ale. Take one gallon of plain syrup, two and a half ounces of citric acid dissolved in one pint of water, two ounces of caramel, essence of ginger ale one ounce and a half, American foam one ounce. Honey Drink. Melt the honey in a bainmarie and flavour it with some essence, such as clove or lemon, with either gin or brandy in the proportion of quarter of an ounce of essence and half a pint of spirit to each one pound of honey. A spoonful of this prepared honey is then mixed with a liqueur-glass- ful of cognac and half a pint of hot liquid. John Collins. Put some ice into a large tumbler, squeeze on it the juice of half a lemon, add a slice of pineapple