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MODERN AMERICAN DRINKS.
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a jigger Bourbon whiskey, one teaspoonful fine
sugar, one bottle cold plain soda. Stir with long
barspoon. Drink during effervescence.
Brandy Crusta.
Fill a mixing-glass half-full of fine ice; add
three dashes of gum-syrup, two dashes mara–
schino, the juice of a quarter of a lemon, two
dashes Peyschaud or Angostura bitters, and one
jigger brandy; mix. Take a lemon the size of a
fancy sauterne or claret glass; peel the rind
from three-fourths of it all in one piece; fit it into
the glass; moisten the edge of the glass with a
piece of lemon, and dip it into fine sugar, which
gives it a frosted appearance. Strain your mix–
ture into this glass, trim with fruit, and
serv~.
Gin Crusta.
Prepare same as Brandy Orusta, substituting
gin for brandy.
St. Croix Crusta.
Mix and serve same as Brandy Orusta, using
St. Croix rum in place of brandy.
Whiskey Crusta.
Is prepared in the same manner as Brandy
Crusta, substituting the desired kind of whiskey
for brandy.