1935 Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book

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PRE-PROHIBITION COCKTAILS

BRONX No. 2

Two jiggers Gin One jigger French Vermouth One-half jigger Orange Juice Two-thirds Gin One-third Orange Juice Two slices fresh Pineapple in glass

BRONX (WAL– DORF) BRONX (Original) '

One-third Orange Juice Two-thirds Gin Dash of French Vermouth Dash of Italian Vermouth

Many claimants to the honor of inventing the Bronx have arisen. It was an Old Waldorf tradition that the in– ventor was Johnnie Solon (or Solan), popular as one of the best mixers behind its bar counter for most of the latter's history. This is Solon's own story of the Crea– tion-of the Bronx: "We had a cocktail 'in those days called the ;Duplex, which had a pretty fair demand. One day, I was making · one for a customer when in came Traverson, head waiter of the Empire Room-the main dining room in the orig– ina.1, Waldorf. A Duplex was composed of equal parts of French and Italian Vermouth, shaken up with squeezed orange peel, or tw_o dashes of Orange Bitters. Traverson said, 'Why don't you get up a new cocktail? I have a customer who says you can't do it.' " 'Can't I?' I replied. "Well, I finished the Duple~ I was ~~ing, and a ji:;'{:j~-~;thought came to me. I poured mto a m1xmg glass the : /k~ .--·· equivalent of two jiggers of Gordon Gin. Then I filled ~~- <- '.~