1935 Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book

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WITH FRENCH SPIRIT

SIDE-CAR

One-third Lemon or Lime Juice

COCKTAIL One-third Cointreau One-third Brandy

The Side-Car is somewhat reminiscent of the Stinger, as New York knew it before the War, except that the Stinger had no fruit juice in it, and needed none, having a strong mint flavor. In English fiction dealing with the Malay States, the characters seem to be forever calling for a drink of similar name. One can scarcely read a page of W. Som– erset Maugham's recently published tales without being tripped up by an order to a menial to ''stengah-up" his thirsty boss or the latter's guests, who then take time off to drink. "Undoubtedly," one man {vas heard to say who had got as near Singapore as Paterson, N. J., "that was where we got the Stinger." He was wrong, but not until one turned up a friend who had a friend just back from Singapore was it established that "stengah" is Malay for "half." It came to mean a drink because it seemed the easiest way for a Malay serv– ant to gather what a Britisher wanted when in need of a half-size "spot" of his favorite beverage. So that,_when Mr. Maugham's characters call for stengahs, what they get are small Scotch-and-Sodas. The pre-prohibition Stinger was thus composed: STINGER Two-thirds Brandy One-third White Creme de Menthe Frappe, and serve in cocktail glass In the Stinger that now comes back to us from France, the Brandy and the White Mint mingle in. equal pro- f1.'fjf ··· From Paris too have come since Repeal a number of ~- . portions.

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