1934 Irvin S Cobb's own Recipe Book

for it and the whiskey became even more famous. In 1886 the Jones family decided that Kentucky was better suited to fine whiskey making and they removed their growing business from Atlanta to Louisville. They brought out more brands and acquired others, among them Four Roses, one of America's most celebrated whiskies. When Paul Jones the founder of the company died, his son and grandson carried on. Today, the third and fourth generation of the family control Frankfort Distilleries - a record of family tradition which probably has no parallel among the large distilling companies in America today. During Prohibition Frankfort added still further to its prestige. Operating under one of the seven distilling permits issued by the government, it supplied a large part of the medicinal whiskey pro– ,, duced and consumed in the country. In one year, more than 20,000 ' physicians purchased Frankfort whiskies for office use. One Frankfort brand, Antique, became known as the finest medicinal whiskey made. When Repeal came, Frankfort was ready with two plants in Ken– tucky and two in Maryland. Possessed of unusual whiskey-making experience, Frankfort had established at Louisville one of the first whiskey research laboratories in America. Here a complete miniature distillery had been built and hundreds of whiskey-making experi– ments had been conducted. Through these experiments, Frankfort had gained much knowledge of the exact science of distillation. It had J so proved~conclusively that the traditional "sour mash" method of distilling, by which its whiskies have always been produced, is the only way great whiskies can be made. And Frankfort had learned, too, that when it comes to aging whiskey, there is no substitute for Father Time and charred oak barrels - that in no other way can whiskey be mellowed into rich, ripe smoothness. 36