1908 The World's Drinks and How to Miw Them by Hon Wm Boothby (1st edition)

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i\ilSCEl,J~ANEOUS ORIN KS.

BALAKLAVA NECTAR. FOR FIFTEEN PERSONS.

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Use large punch-bowl. Peel two lemons and put peel in bowl, .squeeze the lemons on them and add four tablespoonfuls of sugar, press well to extract flayor, add two bottles of plain soda water, two bottles of champagne a nd two bottles of cla ret; stir well, put in a block of ice, dress with fru it aml serve with ladle.

BALTIMORE KISSES. FOR FOUR PERSONS.

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Sweeten the well-beaten whites of six eggs to taste with maple syrup or maple suga r in a small punch-bowl, add a cold bottle of curra nt wine an d stir the same 11nt il of one consistency. Serve in fou r thin glasses. A larger quantity can be made by using the above recipe for proportion.

19~: BAMBOO. A WELL-KNOWN JAPANESE MIX'rURE, VERY POPUL AR W ITH S'rEAMSHIP :l>IBN AND TOURISTS WHO HAVE VISITED THE ORIENT. Half sherry aml half J<,rench vermouth in any quantity is called a Bamboo. A Bamboo Cocktail is also popular and is made and flavored just like a ny ordinary cocktail, only t hat a mixtme of equal lJarts of sherry and \·er.r;nouth is usetl instead of the usual American decoctio ns. (See Recipe No. 32.) B. ANDS. The British abbreviatetl term fo r a Brandy a nd Soda Highball. (See Recipe No. 203.) 195

BARKEEPER 'S DELIGHT.

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Just a little whiskey stra ight, if you please.

197 BI-CARBONATE OF SODA. FOR SOUR STOMACH. Pour into a small glass of carbonated or plai n water about three-qum·ter of a b arspoonful of bi-carbonate of soda ; stir well and serve,