1892 Drinks of the world

AMERICAN DRINKS.

— Cocktails

— Flips, etc.

— Varieties

— A Bar-Tende/ — Bottled

— Punch

Cobblers

— Anstey's Pleader's Guide — Rumfustian, etc. Velvet

— A Yard of Flannel

I THK gi'eat authority, probably the greatest authority, on this interesting subject is a gentleman who, with the true modesty of genius, allows himself to be known only by the pseudonym of Jerry Thomas, Formerly a bar-tender at the Metro- politan Hotels New York, and the Planters House, St. Louis, he is said to have travelled over Europe and America in '' search of all that is recondite in this branch of the spirit art." His very name, says one of his admirers, is synonymous in the lexicon of mixed drinks with all that is rare and original. Among; the chief American drinks are, being alpha- betically arranged, cobblers ^ cocktails, cups, flips, juleps mullsi nectars, neguses, noggs, punches — of which there are at least three score sangarees, shrubs, slings, smashes, and toddies t"- 1 The dictionary explanations of these terms are commonly un- satisfactory. The experience of th^ bar-tender is more than the katrhing of the lexicographer. Cobbler, indeed, is well explained as figmpounded of wine, sugar, lemon^ and sucked up through a