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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
This is simply a drier and better version of the old Jack Rose, which
allows half a pony grenadine to a jigger apple brandy and juice of a
lemon, and is the precise shade of the famous jacqueminot rose.
WILSON'S SOUTH CAMP ROAD COCKTAIL, from JAMAICA,
B.W.I. via ToM DAVIN
As usual with Davin, his words are worth a quote.
"If
you include drinks with your eats here is my donation-which
I captured in Jamaica enroute to Haiti, last winter.
If
you have no
friend who drinks any good lawye.r can prove it to be a fruit cock–
tail, even to the eyes of your very own Aunt Silica Fittichl Even your
friend Hemingway, with his Anis del Mono-besotted tonsils will not
be able to taste the ingredients. Try it yourself, but not more than
two-and I mean that. . . . It was invented by a retired British army
man-and how can England have any army when
all
her princely
chaps are 'retired'-who lives
in~_
or rather outside of, Kingston, named
Wilson. His main vocation seems to be concocting odd beverages, and
if this is any sample he's a wizard. Somehow this escaped his secret
archives because he turned the formula over to the head barman at
the South Camp Road Hostelry when dining some friends there.
. . . As you-all say in Florida: 'Heah-tiz!'
Dry gin,
2
jiggers
Grand marnier,
Yi
pony
Juice of large lime
Dash angostura, dash orange
bitters
French vermouth,
2
jiggers
,,
Absinthe, or Pernod Veritas,
Yz
pony
Egg, white,
1,
fresh as can be
Grenadine, to taste; about
Yz
tsp
Sugar or
gomme
syrup, about
2
tsp, to taste
"Shake with lots of cracked ice and pour into a large saucer cham–
pagne glass capable ·of holding some six ounces of T.N.T.
"Now," continues Editor Davin, "report me this when ye can.
Maybe I had a touch o' sun when I tried it last!"
P.S. Orange
cura~ao
can substitute for grand marnier;
anis del
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