1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

With eggs~ He may demand the moderate advancement of the gov– erning thtottle implicit in a sour or simple highball, or he may call in impassioned tones for the alcoholic equivalent of adrenalin arid oxygen, the quick emergency functions of Stinger, Scotch Mist or .a Sundowner.Cocktail. It is in the early watches that the knowing and perceptive bar– keep must most closely fill the function of physician and adviser. His client~ are in humbled or quiescent mood, usually in search of soft words and consolation. By noontime he may be in requisition as adviser on the race track situation and by nightfall, variously in demand as councillor·at love, bail bondsman or bouncer, but in the morning his technique is guided by a strictly bedside manner~ Some of the more conventional restoratives during the placid honrs when the laundry is delivering the waiter's aprons and the day;s beer is cooling in the coils are:

Milk Punch (plain): 1h pt. milk 1 tsp. sugar

Shake, strain and serve in 12 oz. glass and put little nutmeg on top.

: ·Sherry Flip:

2 oz. sherry wine 1 tsp. sugar whole egg Shake well. Nutmeg on top. Use wine glass.

Port Flip:

2 oz. port wine 1 tsp. sugar whole egg · · Shake well. Nutmeg on top. Use wine glass.

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