1930 Cocktails by "Jimmy" late of Ciro's London

The preparation of this drinking-tome is quite in keeping with the best ethics of such standard works as the family cook-book which your wife keeps tucked away for ready reference in the kitchen table drawer. Here you will find nothing having to do with jiggers nor gills. All such occult references have been abandoned and you will find that your favorite drink's make-up is listed in terms of "parts"; so many parts g in, so many parts pineapple juice and so forth, so that even a child of five may prepare his (or her) favorite beverage without the necessity of running to ask daddy: "Please, what is a jigger?" This in short, is a work dedicated to the simplification of serious and scientific drink– ing. The "part" of course is of elastic size, its final extent to be determined by the student. If he desires he may use a bathtub. On the

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