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calling upon room service for an appropriate quantity of orange
water ice and mixing the two in whatever vessels lent themselves
handily to the purpose. A solid metal wastebasket was generally
approved as ideal, and the stimulant resulting was known to a whole
generation of scholars as
Commodore Bedroom:
I qt. Gordon's gin
I
qt. orange water ice
Shake together in a pitcher or other chalice
.toithout other ingredient, as the water ice
provides both chilling and mixer for the gin.
It
will
he at once perceived that this was a crude and rough-and–
ready makeshift for two cocktails which once exercised a consid–
erable hold upon the general imagination, although of recent years
they have been supplanted by other favorites.
Bron% Cocktail:
Orange Blossom:
I
oz.
gin
%
oz. sweet vermouth
%
oz. French vermouth
1,4
oz. orange juice
Shake and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.
2
oz.
gin
%
oz. orange juice
Shake and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.
Another miscellaneous clutch of cocktails which Mr. Billingsley's
day-shift Ganymedes report as being in current high favor with
the carriage trade include:
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