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

"The Infamous Liquor, the name of tvhich deriv'd from Juniper-Berries in Dutch, is now, by frequent use from a word of midling length shrun\ into a Monosyllable, Intoxicating Gin."

Gin Drinks Of all popular alcoholics, gin probably leads in favor, especially in tropic and sub-tropic countries. To go high bat Avitb the language, gin is an aromatized potable with a characteristic flavor derived from the juniper berry. The word "gin" is merely a shortening of the liquor's original name, geneva, taken from an old Dutch word, genever, a name for the juniper berry. In old writings (such as one of 1706: "Geneva, a kinde of Strong Water, so called") are found many references to this liquor. Its shortened form Gin, formerly denoted a double distilled spirit of British manufacture, imitation of the original liquor, marketed by theDutch as Hollands geneve, later known as Hollands, but today called Hol land Gin. That the British form of geneve was for many years even as now a popular drink, is amply proved by litera ture of the past. For example, in 1709 "The Gypsie With Flip and Geneve got most Damnably Typsie," and in 1728, Dean Swift, driving home a simile, wrote: "Their chatt'ring makes a louder din than fishwives o'er a cup of jin." Our so-called dry gin, usually coupled with the infor mation on the bottle that it is "London Dry Gin," as popular in this country and the British possessions, as it is in the Merry Old Isle. First made in England by a redistillation process repeated frequently before bottling, it is quite different from the old Holland gins which verge on the sweet side. Forty-two