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

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MISCELLANEOUS DRINKS.

285 SEIDLITZ POWDERS. These powders should be kept in every .well regula ted bar. They are harmless when used properly, and are invaluable for settling a disordered stomach. Place tweuty-five grains of carbonate of soda and three drachms of Rochelle salts in a blue paper, and twenty grains of tartaric acid in a white paper aud administer in the following manner : Dissolve the contents of the blue paper in a small bar-glass of water and t he powder contained in the white paper in a very large glass with a little water in the bottom. Now pour the contents of the small glass into the larger one and drink immedi– ately while effervescing. 286 SETTLER. A name sometimes given to a mixture of equal parts of claret a ud plain soda. SHANDY GAFF. This drink is a mixture of equal parts of ginger ale and ale, but lager beer can be substituted for ale if preferred. SHERRY AND EGG. Dash a little sherry wine into a small bar-glass; break an egg into another glass and if good throw in and place in front of the customer with a sherry bottle at his right so he can help himself to the wine. The idea of putting a little wine in the glass b efore placing the egg in was conceived for the purpose of preventing the egg from sticking to the glass while drinking. 287 288

SHERRY FLIP. A LA H ERDERT CORJ,E'.rT, HONG KONG.

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Into a small mixing-glass place a dessertspoonful of sugar, a raw egg and two jiggers of Sherry wine ; shake well with t wo or three lumps of ice in the shaker, strain into a bj ghball gla•1s, grate nutmeg over the top and serve. The above recipe is suitable for making a filp of whiskey or any other wine or liquor by substituting the desired brand of liquor for sh erry wine.