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Sloe Gin Singapore Sling
1 jigger sloe gin
1/2 jigger dry gin
1/2 jigger apricot brandy
1/2 jigger cherry brandy
1/2 lime—juice only
1 teaspoon sugar
Mix in a 12-ounce highball glass. First the sugar, then the lime
juice, the two brandies, the two gins. Stir, fill two-thirds with
cracked ice, and fill to the brim with seltzer. Decorate with a
slice of orange, a slice of pineapple, and a cherry.
Stone Fence
1
whiskey
sweet cider
3 lumps ice
Pour the jigger of whiskey in a tall glass, drop in the three lumps
or cubes of ice and fill to the brim with the unfermented cider.
All left to do is to stir and sip.
Washington Irving, in his Diedrich Knickerbocker's
History of Netv Yor\, claimed the Dutch-Americans
were inventors of "sherry-cobbler" and "stone-face," and
in 1809 Irving also claimed that the original settlers of
New Amsterdam were responsible for the naming of the
"cocktail."
Why whiskey and sweet cider, joined in holy wetlock
should figure under so unemotional a name as "stone-
fence" is matter for deliberation. One punster quips:
"Drink enough and you'll overcome all obstacles and
never take offense."
Originally the name "stone-fence" was applied to an
applejack and sweet cider combination, and those in the
know will tell you that as sweet cider ferments it de
velops into applejack.
However it may develop one thing is certain—it's one
of the hard liquors that is powerfully easy to take.
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