1925 Drinks Long & Short by Nina Toye and A H Adair

Drinks—Long and Short

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for a few minutes. Add three glasses of sweet ened lemon juice and ice, and shake very thoroughly for longer than usual. VELVET Three glasses of whisky and two of French Vermouth. Add one glass of Crhne de Parfait Amour, a dash of Absinthe and two or three dashes of Wormwood bitters. Shake very well. PLAIN WHISKY COCKTAIL Put four glasses of whisky into the shaker with a teaspoonful of soft sugar and a few drops of Orange Bitters. Add more ice than usual and shake for longer, so that some of the ice melts to make up the required quantity. CHOKER Four glasses of whisky, two of Absinthe, and a dash of Wormwodd bitters. This cocktail should be shaken very thoroughly and no sugar should be added. TEA COCKTAIL Two glasses and a half of green China tea, brewed strong but not allowed to stand on the leaves more than five minutes, one teaspoonful of syrup or a heaping teaspoonful ofcastor sugar, three glasses old Scotch or Irish liqueur whisky.