1934 What Shall We Drink by Magnus Bredenbek

Liquor Glassware 169 which are virtually the same as highball glasses and can be called small or large shells. Beer also may be served in formally in mugs or steins, covered or uncovered, decorated or plain, or in the stubby-stemmed,tapering, slender Pilsner type of glasses. Ale is usually imbibed from tall, slender, very stubby stemmed or unstemmed glasses which taper outward from the foot toward the rim and end in a diameter not exceeding three and one half inches. Highballs are served in ten-ounce, straight-sided, un stemmed cylindrical glasses, usually called "shells." Frappes may be served in sherbet or cocktail glasses, with straws or glass sippers to imbibe contents. Pousse Cafe drinks preferably are served in one-ounce crystal cylinders rising from stems almost as long as the bowls, or in the slender, small-sized Sherry glasses, so that the layers of colored ingredients are visible in all their beauty. Straight drinks of whisky,gin and rum may be served in two-ounce, flat-bottomed, tapering cylindrical glasses or in bulging bowl and small mouthed glasses of the brandy glass type. The straight glasses seldom rise more than three inches from base to brim,and usually are called "ponies." A "pony" glass, as previously explained, is standard at a capacity of two ounces and is virtually the same as the straight whisky type of glass. Fizzes and rickeys, noggs and punches, juleps and cobblers, which,by the way,were greatly relished by Charles Dickens as a splendid Summer drink because of their re freshing coolness; smashes, floats, lemonades, bishops and sangarees, almost automatically suit themselves to the lo to 12-ounce goblet or tumbler, and, very often, to the highball type of glass. Either is in good forrn. One almost finds a guide in selecting the glasses to use for various wines and liqueurs by this simple process of reason ing: For rare, high-priced, sweet wines use the smaller types of glasses such as the Sherry glass or even smaller. For "dry" wines, the medium tulip or wide-mouthed glasses. For liqueurs the smallest types of glass. For sparkling wines, wide-mouthed, generous looking glasses.