1954 Practical Bar Management by Eddie Clarke

PRACTICAL BAR MANAGEMENT

On the Rocks Popular American name for serving any of their alcoholic beverages over finely cracked ice, or ice cubes. Serve in a 6-8-oz. glass. Punch One of England's very own and oldest drinks, can be traced back for several hundred years. Can be simple, mixed in a glass, or more elaborately at the table in a large punch bowl, and served in individual glasses. Can be a hot or an iced drink, containing either wine, spirits, beers, cider, fruit juices,tea or coffee, sugar and spices, or anjrthing elsethere is at hand. A most wonderful drink for a party. Rickey A drink made in a tumbler, containing spirit, juice and rind of half a lime, and soda water. Sangaree Similar drink to a Cobbler. Set-up All the makings for a specified drink, except the spirits. Shrubs Special recipes made for bottling, containing spirits, fruit juices and sweetening. Sling A long drink of the Collins type, can contain mineral water or fresh water; some varieties include liqueurs. Smashes Smaller versions of a Mint Julep. Sours Medium-sized drinks, containing spirit, lemon or lime •juice,sweetening,sometimes bitters and white ofegg. Should be well shaken with ice. Swizzle So named because the drink, which contains spirits, bitters and sweetening, is put into a container with plenty of shaved ice and agitated vigorously with a swizzle stick, between the palms of the hands, until the container frosts. (The swizzle stick is a natural product of the West Indies. It consists of the dried stem of a plant, with radiating forked branch ends.) Toddy A warming drink generally made with hot water, spirits, lemon, sugar and spices. Zombie Very potent rum drink, served in a special tall glass, containing fruit juices, sugar, crushed ice and a combination of several highly proofed rums. Zooms Another of the hot drinks, containing spirits, honey, cream and boiling water. "WHO'S WHO"OF WINES, SPIRITS AND LIQUEURS Absinthe A very potent distillate, from wormwood and other

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