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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
made up the things we ate I-she commanded ingredients, and after a
pause, had them brought to the small room with the sliding screens
that gave out on a small garden close where the magnolias drifted the
rose-snow of their petals against the high gray wall; and so she sat
there in the bamboo print kimono they gave her to wear, and mixed
a trio of these for old times' sake, to Russia as she ·had quit it ahead
of bayonets in
1917,
a pale gold haired child of
II
or
12.
Into a crystal goblet put
l
cup of finely cracked ice, and onto this
pour
l
Yz
jiggers of good cognac and the same of the best Gilka
k iim–
mel,
stir for a moment and fill the goblet with chilled extra dry cham–
pagne. Garnish with a single flower petal, or bloom. It is not a drink
to be taken lightly, but advisedly, reverently.
CAP HAITIEN RUM
&
HONEY, or
CLAIRENE au MIEL,
a
WARY ExoTic CoNTRIBUTED by GLENN "STIFF" STEWART of EASTON,
MARYLAND,
&
MIAMI BEACH, WHo SPENT MucH TIME in HAITI as
AMERICAN MINISTER
We have mentioned Glenn Stewart briefly in
Volume I,
and we can
assure all readers that he is a gentleman of parts, who knows many
dishes, many drinks, and probably more about pre-Columbian his–
tory than any layman alive....
Clairene,
in Haiti, is merely raw
white rum, but we have found that when
Yz
Bacardi and
Yz
Haitian
or any good aged dark rum is substituted, the drink acquires char–
acter, discretion and merit. . . . Dissolve
l
tsp or
2
of strained honey
with
1
Yz
jiggers of this rum blend into an old fashioned cocktail
glass. Stir well, turn into this fluid
Yz
the glass full of finely cracked
ice and stir like a Martini to chill well. No bitters, no garnish.
THE SAIGON SPECIAL, another ODD DfµNK from the CAPITAL
CITY of FRENCH INDo-CmNA
&
DATING from the YEAR
1925
This dates back to
1925
when the
goo~
old
SS RESOLUTE
stopped
1
in French Inda-China, and some of our friends undertook to fly up–
river as near to the marvellous Cambo.dian ruins of Angkor, as might
be sane, then to motor back via Pnom Penh-imagine a place called
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