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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
birds. Gosling Brothers brought out the liquid necessaries to our little
hotel, and here are the proportions.
Mix
the following in a bar glass:
4 small dices of ripe pineapple, the juice of
I
small green lime, r tsp
grenadine,
I
tsp of sweet pineapple soda fountain syrup, add rYz jig–
gers Barbados, Demerara, or Martinique rum,
Yz
jigger white Ba–
cardi. Stir with a lump of ice and either strain out as-is, or better still
-as we found-turn into a small goblet half filled with cracked ice.
The pineapple syrup gives the touch, and grenadine may be omitted,
to taste. We find the pineapple much more important as a sweetening
agent, and there is no conflict of delicate tastes.
FIVE DELICIOUS CHAMPAGNE OPPORTUNITIES, which
A.RE
not to be IGNORED
CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL No. I,
KNo~
as the MAHARAJAH's
BURRA-PEG
The word
Burra
in Hindustani means "big," "important," or "big–
time," as the case might be; and "peg" throughout Britaindom means
a "drink"-more often than not a Scotch-and-soda. This particular
champagne affair was broken out on the eve of our departure alone
across India, after a month witl1 Spofford in his big Calcutta bungalow
show in the fashionable Ballygunge section down Chowringhee, be–
yond Lower Circular Road. This Burra-Peg is to the ordinary Cham–
pagne Cocktail what Helen of Troy was to a local shepherd maiden.
. . . We got aboard the Bombay Mail with our tail between our legs
and lunged across Central India, and later on found ourself in Jaipur
-already mentioned in Melon,
Orientale,
Volume
I.
And here in this
amazing town in Rajputana, with its modern government and
120
ft. wide streets, where tigers are protected so the Maharajah may shoot
without fatiguing travel much beyond city limits, where we found
Ambar-lndia's most marvellous deserted city-and got mixed up in
the yearly Festival of the Sun, starting from the Gulta Pass, and with
more elephants,
fakirs
and jugglers than a three ringed circus; here
we found probably the lonesomest Standard Oil man we'd ever seen.
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