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Cocktails
HE cocktail is a modern invention, and is generally used
on fishing and other sporting parties, although some patients
insist that it is good in the morning as a tonic. {Editor's
note — The cocktail shaker had not been invented when
Professor Thomas wrote, hence he advises the employment
of small and large bar glasses. The modern student who
may attempt to duplicate the Professor's experiments will
perhaps prefer to use the shaker.')
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BOTTLE COCKTAIL
To make a splendid bottle of brandy cocktail, use the fol
lowing ingredients:
Two-thirds brandy.
One wineglass of gum syrup.
One-third water.
n
One-half pony glass of cura-
One pony glass of bitters.^
gao.
The author has always used this recipe in compounding the
above beverage for connoisseurs. Whiskey and gin cocktails,
in bottles, may be made by using the above recipe, and sub
stituting those liquors instead of brandy.
1 Professor Thomas modestly recommends such famous bitters as
Boker's, Bogart's, Stoughton's and Angostura, although many sound
drinkers of the period regarded his own preparation, Jerry Thomas's
Own Bitters, as a very superior product.
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