1900 Cocktail BOOTHBY'S American Bartender ( 2nd edition )

MISCELLANEOUS DRINKS.

RICKEY. 142-3. Into a long thin champagne glass containing a piece of ice, squeeze half a lime and drop the rind, seeds and"all in without straining; add ajiggerofgin and fill the glass with siphon seltzer. Serve with spoon. The above recipe is the correct thing but if I were inclined to partake ofa Rickey myself, I should substitute alemon for the lime asa lime skin has a rank flavor. Into a small mixing-glass place a cube ofsugar and a small piece of lemon skin (not lime skin)about as large as you would use for a cocktail; now add about two table-spoonfuls of boiling water and muddle well with a bar spoon until all the oil has been boiled out of the rind and the sugar has been dissolved; then add ajigger ofgood whiskey, and shake the whole upin a shaker containing two or three lumps of ice until enough ice has been dissolved to make the drink large enough to fill a small cut bar glass,into which you then strain it; then with a bar spoon or fruit fork put the lemon skin in the drink; grate a little nutmeg on top and you will then have compounded a nectar fit for the gods. {See Recipe No.303). 142-5. Into a long thin glass place about a jigger of grenadine syrup and a piece of ice, fill up the glass with syphon seltzer and serve. ST.PETERSBURG OR RUSSIAN COCKTAIL, 142-6. Fill a small thin goblet with cracked ice and stir it around a few moments tp thoroughly chill the glass as well as to moisten it; Now throw out the ice and fill the glass with bar sugar. Empty the glass again leaving it chilled and frosted ; dash a flavor ofAngostura bitters around the inside of the glass, add a jigger ofcognac and apiece oftwisted lemon peel, fill the glass with cold cham pagne offthe ice and smile. 142-7. Lew Hagan the great bar-room mechanic claims that a glass of genuine Schweppe's soda with a little choice brandy in it will stay on the stomach when nothing else will. Gus Massey another famous expert on mixology holds that a pony ofcr6me de cassis added to a light B. and S. is the correct thing. Whatever you do, be sure and use good cognac as a poor grade of brandy is very bad for a delicate stomach. ' SOFT TODDY. 142-4. NEW ORLEANS STYLE GRENADINE AND SELTZER. STAY DOWN,

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