1934 Irvin S Cobb's own Recipe Book

indulgence. For we gave to the world the julep, we gave it the cocktail in all its myriad forms, we gave it the rickey and the fizz and the cobbler and many and many another delectable concoction of inspired genius. Yet consider how starkly elemental were the beginnings of this fine art: The earliest chronicled American potation was called Flip. The formula required that there be stirred into' a pitcher of strong home-brewed, or amateur beer enough crud~ molasses to sweeten the beer and give it something to fight with. To the above conglomeration, for harmony's sake, was added rum in the proportion of one full jorum of the rum for each drinker, thus conferring general authority on the whole. And after that, as a dainty final stroke, the mess was heated by plunging into it a red– hot poker. And then - bel~~ve it or not, dearly beloveds,

- and then our sturdy brass-lined forebears actually drank it! They drank it for breakfast! 13