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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
Also, having no cream, it is more refreshing and not so likely to be
gastrically disastrous as the over-rich customary formulae we have
consumed on certain festive occasions.
This mixture needs simply to be multiplied for any company, and
serve in thin 12 oz goblets, not the usual thick punch cups....
Yz
pony of good cognac, 2 ponies of good Spanish
dry
sherry,
X
pony
of
Carta de Oro
Bacardi;
l
tsp or so of sugar, to taste, the yolk of an
egg and
l
cup or so of chilled milk. . . . First put egg and sugar into
the bar glass and beat well, then add spirits and 4 lumps of ice. Stir or
shake briskly, strain into goblet, add cold milk and dust both nutmeg
and cinnamon on top.
A FAREWELL to HEMINGWAY, BEING a SoRT of
KIRSCH
COLLINS WE INVENTED on the NIGHT WE SAW HEMINGWAY
&
BULL–
FIGHTER SIDNEY FRANKLIN off on the PLANE for NEW YoRK,
&
LOYAL–
IST SPAIN
There is no reason to this drink.
It
just happened because Ernest
prefers
kirschwasser,
and it was a muggy, half-breathless sort of night.
The cherry syrup sweet, of course, can be varied to taste. . . · Take
1Yz. jiggers of
kirsch,
X
pony of cherry syrup-again the drug store
kind-and the juice of
l
big green lime. Shake this mixture with 4 ice
cubes, turn ice and all into a collins glass of at least 14 oz capacity, drop
in a spiral peel of green lime, and
fill
glass not quite full with good
chilled club soda. . . . We've later found that raspberry syrup is very
decent, also.
MEXICAN "FIRING SQUAD" SPECIAL, which Is A CREATION
WE ALMOST BECAME WRECKED upon in-of
ALL
SPoTs-LA
CUCU–
RACHA
BAR, in MEx1co C1TY, in 1937
Now
an~
again we found ourselves just a little fed up ';itb rather
casual Mexican mixes, and the guidance of
2
young Mexican
cabal–
leros
whose parents mattered in official circles in that city of Mexico.
We were herded into fancy, rather dull places, served too warm cl.rinks.
And finally on
l
occasion we broke off by ourself, sought out this bar,
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