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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
night spots have per square acre. Years before the man on the street
over here had ever heard of a Daiquiri, sane British colonials out in
Shanghai's International Settlement knew and valued Bacardi rum
for what it was-a
rum
brandy,
mellowed and redistilled and aged•
. . . Now at
II
A.M. those who can spare the time foregather for
Shanghai Bucks or whisky pegs-a habit very disastrous to productive
activity during the remainder of any business day, we learned. . . .
Take a big 16 oz collins glass, put in 3 cubes of ice,
l
tsp or
2
of sugar,
pour in
2
jiggers of Bacardi-White Seal or Gold Seal-and fill up
with good ginger ale. The improved Shanghai Buck adds the juice of
l
green lime or
Yi
lemon, and uses grenadine instead of sugar, to get
the handsome colour. Personally we prefer stone bottle ginger beer to
ginger ale. It is a Jamaica Buck, or Barbados Buck, only using Ba–
cardi instead of dark rum, or blended rums...
WORDS to the LIQUID WISE No. XVIII, on the UNDENIABLE
EXCELLENCE of a FINE DRY SHERRY, or SHERRY
&
BIT–
TERS, instead of the PERPETUAL BARRAGE
o~
COCKTAILS
Here's
1
case where old Colonel E. Sifton Ponsonby-Fittich is per–
fectly right-for the English appreciated sherry long before our war
of independence, recognizing it as one of the truly civilized drinks en–
joyed by mankind. But a word of caution: don't get a jug of local,
sweet, last-month's sherry and expect any cultured results. Sherry
should be properly aged, of the dry or drier
type.
Bitters are optional.
... We now offer a kernel of heresy which probably will cause many
English to wish us harm: chill the sherry decanter if sherry and bitters
are used. The sherry taste is just as fine, the whole thing more crisp
and pungent. We even do it with sherry alone when using the drink
for a pre-dinner appetizer, in warmer weather.... We
feel,
strictly,
that sherry
and
bitters changes old sherry tradition.
THE WEST INDIAN SHRUB, from the BERMUDA FILES of ONE
WILKINSON, EsQUIRE, UNFORTUNATELY DECEASED, but WHo OWNED
CRYSTAL CAVE,
&
THINGS DoWN THERE in BERMUDA,
&
WHo WAs
VERY CouRTEOUS
&
KIND
to Us on OuR FrnsT TRIP to that ENCHANTED
SMALL ISLAND
This mild and cooling summer beverage may be made in the more
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