1946 The Stock Club Bar Book by Lucius Beebe

calling upon room service for an appropriate quantity of orange water ice and mixing the two in whatever vessels lent themselves handily to the purpose. A solid metal wastebasket was generally approved as ideal, and the stimulant resulting was known to a whole generation of scholars as

Commodore Bedroom:

I qt. Gordon's gin I qt. orange water ice

Shake together in a pitcher or other chalice .toithout other ingredient, as the water ice provides both chilling and mixer for the gin.

It will he at once perceived that this was a crude and rough-and– ready makeshift for two cocktails which once exercised a consid– erable hold upon the general imagination, although of recent years they have been supplanted by other favorites.

Bron% Cocktail:

I oz. gin % oz. sweet vermouth % oz. French vermouth 1,4 oz. orange juice Shake and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.

Orange Blossom:

2 oz. gin % oz. orange juice Shake and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.

Another miscellaneous clutch of cocktails which Mr. Billingsley's day-shift Ganymedes report as being in current high favor with the carriage trade include:

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