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OldWaldorf Bar Days

DUCHESS

DUKE

DUPLEX

Dash of Orange Bitters

One-third Absinthe

One-third French Vermuth

One-third Italian Vermuth

Frappe

Dash of Orange Bitters

Two dashes, each of Absinthe and

Anisette

One jigger French Vermuth

Frappe

Parent of the original Bronx. Johnnie Solon, inventor of

the latter, was making a Duplex, as earlier told, when he

was challenged to create a new cocktail, and evolved the

Bronx.

DORLANDO

Two dashes Orange Bitters, or two

squeezes of Orange Peel

One-halfltalian Vermuth

One-half French Vermuth

After a marathon runner in the Olympic games in Lon–

don in 1908. Dorlando made a good fight. He arrived at the

stadium in Shepherd's Bush before Johnnie Hayes, the

American winner of the event, but fell several times in at–

tempting to complete the necessary circuit of the course, was

helped to his feet by sympathetic Englishmen and actually

pushed across the line. The Italian flag was raised, to the

great indignation of Americans present, and had to be low–

ered. The incident made a lot of talk at the time in several

countries.

EASY

Same as.Daniel de Rouge

Dash of Orange Bitters

One-eighth Italian Vermuth

Seven-eighths Booth's Gin

Shake; strain

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