1934 What Shall We Drink by Magnus Bredenbek

16 What Shall We Drink? One-sixth French Vermouth, one-sixth Italian Vermouth, two-thirds dry gin, mixed in a taU, ice-filled glass. One olive and a pinch from a lemon peel completes the mixture. Sam figures you'll use discretion in measuring the ingredients. OLD-FASHIONED APPLEJACK COCKTAIL This one was contributed by J. P. McEvoy, one of America's foremost humorists. I beheved he was spoofing, but when I tried one of his Old-Fashioned Applejack Cock tails, I felt like awarding him more than a zinc-lined pair of spats. Here's the mirth-provoking mixture: Oneteaspoon ofsugar,one-halflemon with juice,squeezed on a "jigger" of Applejack,and ice water. A "jigger," as be fore explained, is a portion as light or stiff as you wish to make it. Some folks figure it as an ounce, or half a two- ounce "pony" glass. Others more. A happy medium is two ounces of Applejack. His recipe, by the way, won second place in the contest mentioned. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS COCKTAIL For lack of a name, Gouverneur Morris's third winning prize drink deserves his. Here's that noted author's idea of a "real" cocktail. One-sixth French Vermouth, one-sixth Itahan Vermouth,two-thirds gin,shaken in finely shaved ice until there is double the amount of liquid originally poured into the shaker. Well,it's cool, anyway,when poured into a shell glass. LAMBS'CLUB COCKTAIL Mix in shaker one and a half oimces of dry gin, one and a half ounces of French dry Vermouth and one ounce of Itahan sweet Vermouth. Add a generous dash of Benedictine, a teaspoon of"gum,"shake welland strain into cocktail glass. LOFTUS COCKTAIL Back in the days when Ceciha Loftus and Jefiferson de Angehs were the hit of the London stage and later of the