1935 Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book

PRE-PROHIBITION COCKTAILS 57 Named, not after Sinclair, but before the author of "Main Street" had discovered Broadway. LIBERAL Dash of Orange Bitters Three dashes Amer Picon One-half Whiskey One-half Italian Vermouth (Stir) LIEUTENANT One-half French Vermouth COLONEL One-half Amer Picon Bitters LOFTUS Called in compliment to Cissie Loftus, famous Eng- lish comedienne and mimic, long a popular top-liner. LONE TREE Dash of Orange Bitters One-half Italian Vermouth One-half Plymouth Gin After the 1899 equivalent of a "nineteenth hole"-a tree which stood alone in a secluded part of a 'golf course near Philadelphia. Players on that course fre– quented the Old Waldorf Bar. ' LOVE Martini Cocktail, with White of one Egg added One-third French Vermouth One-third Italian Vermouth One-third Absinthe I

One-half French Vermouth One-half Gordon Gin One-quarter Italian Vermouth One-quarter French Vermouth One-half Gordon Gin

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