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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
presumably!-turn into a big chilled saucer champagne glass, twist–
ing a curl of green lime or lemon peel over the top.
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, RIDING CLUB COCKTAIL
This is a fine whet to the negligent stomach, besides being an ex–
cellent cocktail seldom served in the north these Martini days. We are
acquainted with a genuine Kentucky Colonel who serves this as his
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concession to the cocktail era besides a Bourbon Old Fashioned.
. . . Take of calisaya,
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jigger, add a dash of Angostura and the same
of acid phosphate. Stir with ice like a Martini and strain into a Man–
hattan glass. No garnish, please.
THE YOKOHAMA ROMANCE COCKTAIL, BEING a YELLOW
PERIL CoNcocTED by ONE ToYAMA, No. I BAR-BOY at a YoKo NIGHT
SPOT CALLED "ROMANCE" CABARET
We don't include this merely in an effort to be "foreign" for truth
was that the "Romance" Cabaret was a.sorry place of blaring music
and taxi-dancing small Japanese men with lovely fluid doll-like Japa–
nese girls with bobbed hair and bangs. But upon being urged by
Toyama to sample his masterpiece and we declined with thanks, he
frosted one for us on the house, with his compliments. It is, to put it
commonly, an accidental "natural" and in it went. That evening was
painfully punctuated later when, after having chartered a fleet of
bicycles from some coolies, we attempted to navigate cross lots toward
the main godowns and docks where our ship was tied up, we ran
blindly into a mass of earthquake rubble still unremoved after the
disaster of 1923-fetching up all standing in an inverted position and
semi-conscious, and from which we were finally extricated by the
combined and random efforts of a gentleman from North Carolina
who made cigarettes and a gentleman from Kalamazoo who made
stoves and shipped them, for increment, direct to you. The cycle was
reported a total loss.
The cocktail: 2 jiggers of old cognac,
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jigger of cherry brandy,
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tsp of Rose's lime juice or lime syrup-the kind we see in soda
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