1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

Old Waldoif Bar Days

1915 Named in honor of a New Year. Some believe this was the last cocktail invented in the old Waldorf Bar. Well, if it wasn't exactly a "knockout," it did not require many to produce that effect. One-third Cura~ao One-third Cream One-third Gin One recipe given in the old Waldorf Bar-book from which these names and ghosts of drinks have been compiled was never served over the bar of that hotel. It was a stock story, told by the bartenders for almost a generation. And that it was faithfully repeated, there can be no doubt, be– cause of the careful way it was written down. Even the date when it was first imparted to some barman at the Waldorf is given-May 7-but of what year, is not recorded; ap– parently from the context one between i899 and 1902. The 'customer who left the s'i:ory was one Peter S. Hoffman, of Chicago, who, according to the entry in the book, guaranteed it would stimulate business for coroners. Whatever the ad– vocates of prohibition claim in that direction, it is reprinted, partly as a warning, and partly as a sample of the "latest men's story" retailed in a high-class drink emporium of some thirty years ago.

THE RECIPE:

T a·ke three Chorus Girls and three Men Soak in Champagne until Midnight Squeeze into an Automobile

.f\.dd a dash of Joy, and A drunken Chauffeur Shake well

Serve at Seventy Miles an Hour Chaser-A Coroner's Inquest

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