1935 Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book

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OLD WALDORF BAR BOOK-AMENDMENTS by 1788 that John Hunter, a British army physician, after a careful observation of its effects, acquitted Jamaica Rum of any complicity in the ills that befell British soldiers sta– tioned there; in substance, Hunter declared it had no stain on its character, and that it could be drunk with absolute impunity. Thereupon the British navy adopted it as its own. Still, certain British lexicographers maintain that "Rum" is an American word, coined generations before the British acquired the habit of abbreviation, from the good old Devonshire "Rumbullion." It is to Mr. T. G. S. Hooke, for many years assistant manager of the old Hotel Belmont, in New York, but for some years past general manager of the Myrtlebank Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, and the Tichfield, in Port Antonio, that I am indebted for the following collection of the best cocktails and other local concoctions in which the most-famed product of Jamaica finds favor among visitors from northern latitudes.

COCKTAILS

Note: Ingredients should be added in order named. Shake except where stirring is specified. Cocktails should usually be strained.

Fill bar glass half full of Ice One or two dashes Angostura Three dashes Maraschino Three dashes Cura910 Three dashes Grenadine Half glass Jamaica Rum (Stir) Add Cherry; squeeze Lemon Peel on top

CHINESE