1891 Cocktail Botthby's American Bar-Tender

INTRODUCTORY.

tN presenting this work to those desirous of becoming proficient in the bar- tender's art, I wish to thoroughly impress upon the minds of my readers that the recipes herein contained are considered standard in every sense of the word by all competent critics; therefore I willingly stake my well-earned reputation upon their practicability. Many pamphlets heretofore written upon the theme of mixology are abso– lutely worthless, owing to the fact that they have been gotten up in the interest of some cheap publishing house which has paid some celebrated mixologist a royalty for the use of his name only, while some inexperienced, unprincipled individual is the real author. These so-called guides contain recipes for the mixing of beverages which no practical bartender on earth ever had occasion to serve. The only redeeming features of these decoctions are their high– sounding names, which scheming, intaginative penny-a-liners have given them in order to make large volumes out of little material. I have neither asked nor received assistance of any description in the com– pilation of this hook, the hints, suggestions, recipes and commandments being the fruit which my own individual tree of experience has borne. Therefore, I can challenge the world to ridicule or disprove anything herein contained. Respectfully, WM. T. CCOCKTAIL) BOOTHBY, Presidittg Deily at the famous Hotel Rafael CLub House, SAN RAFAEL, CAL.

Late of the best houses in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Kansas City, and later of Byron Hot Springs, Cal., and the Sil,·er Palace, San Francisco.