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implication of devoting the day to fun or chartering a hack to drive
to
City
Island for lunch. Midmorning was the first well-established
masculine cocktail hour.
.
In
an age when stem glassware was .less common than it is today
cocktails were served in what is now known as a Delmonico glass,
a practice still observed at Whyte's and a
few
other old-time restau·
rants in the financial district, and ran in quantity to the size of a
modern sour. Because of its unrivaled tonic qualities as a restorative
. -. .and element for finning. the moral fiber, as well as because of the
prevailing American taste fo.r drinks with whisky bases at this time,.
the clB.ssic and standard Manhattan cocktail, precisely as it is served.
at.this red hot minute at the Stork Club, was an almost universal
ri~e
until the end of the
~hteteenth
.century.
Manhattan Cocktail:
%
oz.
rye whisky
¥.i
oz,.Italian vermouth
Decorate with maraschino cherry, stir,
and
serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.
. Whatever may he the present vogue for Martinis,· a
~rink
which
became firmly established as Londons type gin became more widely
available in the United States, make no mistake about it: the Man–
hattan was the archetypal short mixed drink and blazed a trail for
.all others to follow. Nor, accomplished bar.tenders will point out, is
it necessary or even advisable to use the finest and oldest proof
spirits in making the most acceptable Manhattan.The smoother and
sweeter the whisky, the less volume or incisiveness will he possessed
by the finished cocktail and it has often been
re~a~ked
that the most
exciting Manhattan is one compounded with ordinary quality bar
whisky rather than the rarest.overproof article. It is perhaps the only
mixed drink where this generality obtains.
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Morning