1939 The Gentleman's Companion volume II Beeing an Exotic Drinking Book

THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION

items like the Peking Tiger's Milk on Page 130... . These should not be less than 10 ounces we hold, and can go all the way up to 16, depend– ing on glass source and host's generosity.... Only needed on pretty elaborate bars. Big rounded goblets will also do, but the taper side is what the world expects. 8. 16 oz straight-sided Tom Collins glasses, which are also used for mint juleps when hosts do not have silver cups.... These must not be less than 12 oz under any circumstances, 14 better, and 16 just about indi– cated.... The 16-oz Collins handles 1 pint of club soda or sparkling water. SHAKERS in GENERAL We've had all sorts of shakers from the aluminum ones they give away at Gosling Brothers in Bermuda and Soccony & Speed, Gibral– tar, to case customers-through gigantic lighthouses, nickel silver jobs we took over one year for outside lacquering in Kyoto, Japan, and pic~ed up the next, to sterling ones made up for us on Silver Street, Peking. We have always felt that other metal than sterling reacts badly to liquor and acids, and aluminum especially lends a "brassy" taste. How– ever, the newer chromium jobs appear unaffected.. . . In other words, if we cannot afford silver, get one chromium-plated inside and out, or glass with chrome top. . . . Certain cocktails like dry Martinis, should always be stirred in a bar glass, never shaken-and this rou– tine is always given under the drink receipt.... The new electric cocktail shaker-known as The Mixer-is treated on Page 6. THE MEASUREMENTS ARE SIMPLE, & APPLY to ALL M1xED DRINKS MENTIONED in this VoLUME 1 DASH . . . This means what comes from a bottle with a quill or "squirter" top, with an average hard movement of the hand.... Ap– proximately 3 drops. r PONY . . . 1 oz, level full. 1 JIGGER . . . 1 Yi oz, level full. 1 BA~S~OON . . . This is a long handled spoon used for measuring or stirring.... Approximately 1 tsp. r PINCH ... What we can pick up between thumb and forefinger-