1895 Modern American drinks; how to mix and serve all kinds of cups and drinks

MODERN AMERICAN DRINKS.

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Yale Cocktail.

Fill a mixing-glass half-full fine ice, three dashes orange bitters, one dash Peyschaud bitters, a piece lemon-peel, one jigger Tom gin. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass; add a squirt of siphon seltzer. York Cocktail. A mixing-glass half-full fine ice, three dashes orange bitters, one-half jigger whiskey, one-half jigger vermouth. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass, squeeze piece of lemon-peel over the top. Serve. Cut a lemon in half, place it in a mixing-glass, add one tablespoonful fine sugar, crush with mud- dler so as to extract both the juice of the lemon and part of the oil of the rind, fill the glass half full of fine ice, add one jigger brandy. Mix well, strain into a Collins-glass containing a piece of ice, pour in a bottle of plain soda. Stir with a long bar-spoon and serve. Brandy Collins.

John Collins.

Prepare same as Brandy Collins, substituting Holland gin for brandy.