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

Sloe Gin Singapore Sling 1 jigger sloe gin 1/2 jigger dry gin

1/2 jigger apricot brandy 1/2 jigger cherry brandy 1/2 lime—juice only 1 teaspoon sugar

Mix in a 12-ounce highball glass. First the sugar, then the lime juice, the two brandies, the two gins. Stir, fill two-thirds with cracked ice, and fill to the brim with seltzer. Decorate with a slice of orange, a slice of pineapple, and a cherry.

Stone Fence 1

whiskey

sweet cider 3 lumps ice

Pour the jigger of whiskey in a tall glass, drop in the three lumps or cubes of ice and fill to the brim with the unfermented cider. All left to do is to stir and sip. Washington Irving, in his Diedrich Knickerbocker's History of Netv Yor\, claimed the Dutch-Americans were inventors of "sherry-cobbler" and "stone-face," and in 1809 Irving also claimed that the original settlers of New Amsterdam were responsible for the naming of the "cocktail." Why whiskey and sweet cider, joined in holy wetlock should figure under so unemotional a name as "stone- fence" is matter for deliberation. One punster quips: "Drink enough and you'll overcome all obstacles and never take offense." Originally the name "stone-fence" was applied to an applejack and sweet cider combination, and those in the know will tell you that as sweet cider ferments it de velops into applejack. However it may develop one thing is certain—it's one of the hard liquors that is powerfully easy to take. Eighty-one