1938 Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to mix'em (3rd printing) by Stanley Clisby Arthur

The Sazerac Cocktoil

Oldtimers will tell you the three outstanding drinks of New Orleans in the memory of living men were the dripped absinthe frappe of the Old Absinthe House, the Ramos gin fizz, and the Sazerac cocktail. As previously related, the American cocktail was not only born in Old New Orleans but was given its curious name in the city's famous Vieux Carre. There are cock tails and cocktails but the best known of all New Or leans cocktails is unquestionably the Sazerac. The fact that it originated in New Orleans gave rise to the legend that it was first concocted by and named for an old Loui siana family, legend without fact as no such Louisiana family ever existed. A barbershop now holds forth in a building on the right hand side of the first block in Royal street going down from Canal, and before its doors, still remains lettered in the sidewalk the word "SAZERAC." This denotative indicated the entranceway to a once well- patronized bar on the Exchange Alley side of the build ing. It was here the drink famed far and wide as a Sazerac cocktail was mixed and dispensed. It was here it was christened with the name it now bears. For years one of the favorite brands of cognac imported

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