1876 The Bar-Tenders' Guide or How to Mix all kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks by Jerry Thomas

rp.EFAC'H. Bank of Kngland, a sraaU driuking saloon that had been sot up by a ponpa otic American, at the door of which was placed a board coyeLd Dared f'r ^ ^"'O'^'oan mixed drinks supposed to be pre- estabUshment. The "Connecticut eye-ojen- « I ^ '°S-o^tters," together with the "lightning-smashes" c^w^ -eated a p.ofound'ensalonTthe rowd assembled to peruse the Sectarian biU of fare, if they did produce custom It struck us, then, that a list of all ihe socTal iSink, -the composite beverages, if we may call them so-of Amoricl Wd reaUybe one of the curiosities of jovial literature; and tit nrw's combined with a catalogue of the mixtures common to other natir and made praoticaUy useful by the addition of a concise descript^n o^ the various processes for-"brmving" each, it would be a to hanl'th " -oil"lolIt d e villamous compounds" of bar-keeping Goths and Vandall wno know no more of the amenities of ion vivant existence than aS Wntot can know of the bouquet of champagne. There s philosophy,"says Father Tom in the drama,"even in a iue of punch.' Wo claim the credit of "pliilosophy teaching by example" then, to no ordinaiy extent in the composition of this volume; for our index exhibits the title of eighty-six different kinds of punches,togethei with a umverse of cobblers,juleps, bitters, cups,slings,shrubs,kc.. each and all of which the reader is carefully educated how to concoct in the choicest manner. For the perfection of this education, the.name, alone of Jerry Thomas is a sufficient guarantee. He has travelled Europe and America in search of all that is recondite in this branch ofthe spirit art. He has been tlie Jupiter Olympus of the bar at the Metropolitan Hotel m this city. He was the presiding deity at the Planter's House St. Lome. Ho has been the proprietor ofone of the most richerche saloons m Hew Orleans as weU as in New York. His very name is synonymous in the lexicon of mixed drinks, with all that is rare and orivina! Tn the"Wme Press," edited by P. S. Gozzons, Esq., we are indebted for the composition of several vidiiable punches, and among them wo ml particularize the celebrated "Niiremburgh," and the equallv f "Philadelpliia Fish House" punch. The rest we owe to the ffi l T"' of Jerry P/mmiM himself, and as he is as ine.xorable as the Medls 1 any thing but excellent materials, we conceive that we are soffit / mg that wiiatevor may bo prepared after his instructions wifbeirf« si^ak eloquently for itself. "Good wino needs no bush tells us aud over one of Jorrv's m!v.f„r,.<. i • • ' ^"^xespear# 01 Jorry s mixtures eulogy is quite as redundant.