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Cocktails
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The Cocktail was generally regarded as an American inven–
tion.
In
the opinion of the Author, it had come to be the
great American drink upon the advent of Prohibition. Indeed,
it had reached the status of a social institution. The National
Appetizer would be a fair entitlement for it.
It
was the pre–
lude to at least every formal meal. But its use had been more
and more widely extended until it became the presiding drink
of most every genial greeting and good fellowship meeting–
from cockcrow to cockcrow.
For instructions particular to the making of cocktails,
"General Directions", as previously printed was always
recommended.
The Author submits following one hundred formulas for
the same number of cocktails and believes that they
will
manifest themselves as covering almost the whole possible
range of the variations of this drink. Certainly, they represent
the one hundred most popular and most used formulas when
drinking was public and amateur mixers had not gone daft in
trying by efforts of their own to approximate the enjoyed
standards of the old regime.
They will be found perfectly comprehensive and truly
recording the cocktails of every social stratum used upon
all
sorts of occasions in the "good old days. "
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