1932 The Green Cocktail Book by Jimmy

T^reface The preparation of this drinking-tome is quite in keeping with the best ethics ofsuch 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 favourite drink's make-up is listed in terms of "parts"; so many parts gin, so many parts pineapple juice and so forth, so that even a child of five may prepare his (or her) favourite beverage without the necessity of running to ask daddy: "Please, what is a shaker?" This in short, is a work dedicated to the simplification of serious and scientific drink ing. The "part" of course is of elastie sizp, its final extent to be determined by the student. If he desires he may use a bathtub. On the other hand,for the more conservative drinker, the "part" may be represented by

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