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Pompier Highball (or Vermouth-Cassis):
3 oz. French vermouth
Cooler:
4
dashes creme de cassis
seltzer
add lemon peel
Serve in highball glass and stir.
2 oz. gin
1 cube ice
peel rind of lemon in spiral form
1 split so,da
Serve.in tall glass and stir.
Most personal preferences in mixed drinks are simply variations on
standard or basic themes in much the same manner that all witti–
cisms are supposedly based on seven fundamental joke structures.
Carole Landis, for example, swears by a vodka Martini which,
if
pursued over any length of time, she promises
will
make the cus–
tomer scream next morning for a Bloody Mary.
Vodka Martini #1:
B loody Mary:
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3 oz. vodka
1 oz. dry vermouth
Stir or spoon with cube ice and serve as a
conventional Martini in 4 oz. glass.
3 oz. vodka
6 oz. tomato juice
2 dashes Angostura bitters
juice of half lemon
I I
Shake these together with ice or mix
in
Waring mixer and serve cold in highball
glass.