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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
was finished, with a 6-year bride and 4 friends, to do a bit of sailing
and swimming and basking on undiscovered white sand beaches by
vitriol blue coral water that is clearer than anywhere else in the whole
universe. A gentleman of colour suggested this as a dry, appetizing
taste-thrill at Dirty Dick's, and found it to be merely Holland gin and
vermouth-nothing else except Angostura-in a 2 to
r
ratio. . . .
After a bit of later experimentation on self and friends we discovered
that addition of
Yz
a green lime-strained juice-and
Yz
tsp of grena–
dine or bar sugar works miracles with this drink.
TURF
COCKTAIL No. II, from the TAJ MAHAL HoTEL, on APoLLO
BUNDA R, in BoMBAY, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 1931, to BE ExAcr;
SERVED after the RuNNING of the MAHARAJAH of RAJPIPLA GoLD CuP
at the WESTERN INDIATuRF CLUB, LTD.
We had won all of sixty-seven rupees on this gold-cup, 23,000-rupees
race, and were feeling very horsy and turfy, and tired of the eternal
chotapegs-jyst
plain Scotch and not-too-cold soda, without ice, of the
last few days-and were open for suggestions. G.
J.
Mack, local
Manager for General Motors Export, suggested a Turf Cocktail, of a
recognized mix, and after a barrage of Hindustani this resulted, much
to everyone's amazement:
r
jigger of dry gin,
I
pony of French ver–
mouth,
r
tsp of absinthe, or
Pernod Veritas;
donate
r
tsp of mara–
schino and a dash of orange or Abbots bitters. Stir in a bar glass like a
Martini and serve in a Manhattan glass, ungarnished.
TURF
COCKTAIL No. III, from the HAVANA CouNTRY CwB,
WINTER of 19 3
0
This is virtually the same as No. II, only using old Tom gin for a
base, orange bitters, and everything else the same.
THE VIRGIN'S PRAYER, a MEMORY from VERSAILLES, in the
SUMMER of 1926
That summer when we were living in Paris, we met many people
across the street from our own domicile, in Harry's American Bar–
already a happy memory to countless Americans. And one night we
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