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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
trimmed with
Yz
tsp creme de menthe, floated on at the last. Twist a
curl of lemon peel for its oil. It is stirred in a bar glass and must be
cold indeed.
BERTITA'S SPECIAL COCKTAIL,
con HABANERO,
BEING
an ExoTIC WE HAVE PERSONALLY FETCHED BACK from TAxco, which
is BACK in the HrGH HILLS of MEx1co, where ARTISTS from AMERICA
CONGREGATE for VARYING REASONS,
&
with VARYING SuccESs
Bertita, diagonally across the southwest corner of the public square
r
from de la Borda's matchless cathedral is a
dingy
but mildly cele-
brated place, noted twice in this volume. This is a potent drink poured
with a heavy hand, as we found during a stay in Taxco in February
1937....
Habafiero
incidentally, means any of the light Cuban rums
properly distilled from sugar cane by-product, and aged in the wood.
Properly they should be called rum brandies, we imagine. Bacardi is
the best known, but down there in Mexico the citizens blot up
an
amazing count of Cubaiio rums we never even heard of, like
El Caney
in its slim Rhine wine style bottle.... To
4
jiggers of light Cuban
rutn
add the strained juice of
2
limes, the strained juice of
I
Yz
average
sized oranges,
2
tsp of grenadine, or sugar or
gomme
syrup. Shake
vigorously with lots of ice, serve in big champagne glasses-for
2
people. As we recall it Bertita served it with cracked ice still
in
the
drink. It would pan out well
iµ
The Mixer, incidentally. Personally
we float on
I
tsp Jamaica, atop the finished drink.
WORDS to the WISE No. IV,
on
the WISDOM of ADDING a
VERY LITTLE JAMAICA RUM to ALL COCKTAILS REQUIR-
ING FRUIT JUICES of any KIND
,
.
This .is our invariable rule now, as
1
tsp of Jamaica adds a defimte
someth~g
to all fruit juice drinks; and especially to those .bas:d on
Bacardi or
~ther
light rums, which are so delicate that their virtues
are cloaked
10
the more usual fruit juices themselves.
JERUSALEM'S BETWEEN the SHEETS, from the BAR BooK of
WEBER at the KING DAVID
Like the American Side Car,
~nd
other truly worthwhile cocktails
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