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A NOTE ON GINS
Gin is an aromatic liquor distilled from vari
ous grain, and blended with extract of Juniper
...from which it derives its name. In the mak
ing of cocktails the following types are indi
cated:
Silver Wedding Dry Gin—Ginfree from any
sweetening or flavoring. Distilled with many
rare ingredients.
Old Tom—Gin sweetened with pure granu
lated sugar.
Plymouth—Dry gin to which a flavoring ex
tract has been added.
Sloe Gin—A dry gin assimilated with the
sloe berry,a small,plumlike,astringent fruit,and
granulated sugar. Not to be confused with the
real gin.
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