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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
this routine the pearly, almost opalescent, sheen of the absinthe is even
more apparent than in the Frappe; also its potency.
AN ABSINTHE FRAPPE from HELIOPOLIS PALACE, CAIRO, in 1931
Here is one of the most bizarre and startling hotels in all the world.
We found it, and not doing so well, back in 1926; but later on, in
funds, it drew the fashionable crowd out near the race track. . . .
This drink was mixed in small silver cocktail shakers holding enough
for 2 guests; fetched to table with chilled glasses of champagne saucer
type... . Merely turn 2 glasses of finely cracked ice into a chilled
small shaker, add two 2-oz jiggers of absinthe and r tsp
anis del mono,
or French anisette. Shake quickly and hard. Pour out, ice and
all;
and
a short straw, bright green in hue, is the final touch. This again pro–
duces a pearly white fluid at odds with the greenish liquid
in
bottle.
Please don't ignore this small shaker, iced shaker, iced glasses busi–
ness. When making drinks especially in small amount this is essential
to chill cold
enough-but mainly to prevent much ice melting to dilute
and injure the tone of the fipished drink.
WORDS to the LIQUID WISE No. II, STILL further INSISTING
that SHAKER
&
GLASSES ALWAYS BE CHILLED-ESPE–
CIALLY when MAKING COCKTAILS for a VERY FEW
GUESTS
Mixing
2
cocktails in:,. huge, room-temperature shaker, and pour–
ing them into room-temperature glasses, is careless business. The ice
~elts
rapidly, dilutes the drink, and the whole mix warms so fast that
mstead of being really chilled the final outcome is also not far from
room temperature. . . . A warm cocktail is like half-way objects in
l~e-n~ither
this nor that, and often a reflection op. the judgment and
d1scret1on of those present.
ADIOS AMIGOS,
ONE from the ARMY-NAVY CLUB in MANILA,
&
ONE
to be WATCHED
SENORS!
Bacardi, 2 ponies
Cognac, 1 pony
French Vermouth, r pony
Lemon, juice,
Yz;
or lime, juice, r
Dry gin,
1
pony
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