1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

implication of devoting the day to fun or chartering a hack to drive to City Island for lunch. Midmorning was the first well-established masculine cocktail hour. . In an age when stem glassware was .less common than it is today cocktails were served in what is now known as a Delmonico glass, a practice still observed at Whyte's and a few other old-time restau· rants in the financial district, and ran in quantity to the size of a modern sour. Because of its unrivaled tonic qualities as a restorative . -. .and element for finning. the moral fiber, as well as because of the prevailing American taste fo.r drinks with whisky bases at this time,. the clB.ssic and standard Manhattan cocktail, precisely as it is served. at.this red hot minute at the Stork Club, was an almost universal ri~e until the end of the ~hteteenth .century.

% oz. rye whisky ¥.i oz,.Italian vermouth Decorate with maraschino cherry, stir, and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.

Manhattan Cocktail:

. Whatever may he the present vogue for Martinis,· a ~rink which became firmly established as Londons type gin became more widely available in the United States, make no mistake about it: the Man– hattan was the archetypal short mixed drink and blazed a trail for .all others to follow. Nor, accomplished bar.tenders will point out, is it necessary or even advisable to use the finest and oldest proof spirits in making the most acceptable Manhattan.The smoother and sweeter the whisky, the less volume or incisiveness will he possessed by the finished cocktail and it has often been re~a~ked that the most exciting Manhattan is one compounded with ordinary quality bar whisky rather than the rarest.overproof article. It is perhaps the only mixed drink where this generality obtains. '

19: Morning