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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
train, Imperial Airways flying boat, or
da!tabeah-one
of those odd,
romantic looking and amazingly luxurious river sailing craft with
their pointed lateen sails curving half moon style against the cloud–
less sky-to Loucqsor know the Winter Palace and Aziz Effendi;
know his superb gin fizz. It is a wonderful thing to sit on the terrace
of a wine-clear evening, pleasantly wearied from a day of marveling
in incredible Karnak, and after our drive in a carriage down the
Avenue of the Sphinxes, with a
14
oz example of Aziz' art in our
hands. Actually what he has done is to take the original New Orleans
Silver Fizz, and through meticulous chilling and the use of fine
Schweppes club soda instead of carbonated city-main water, has im–
mortalized the thing like a graceful imported, expatriated, work of
art, and set it up again in the Valley of the Nile. It may be com–
manded with London dry
gin
or old Tom-to your wishes. The
orange flower water is stepped up probably because the whole amaz–
ing East adapts perfume to many more uses than the American office
of making lovely ladies smell like bowers of roses.... Using a big
glass the call is for more gin than usual.
Put
l
to
l
Yi
tsp of sugar into the shaker, add
2
jiggers of dry or old
Tom gin-to preference-the juice of
l
small lemon,
l
pony of thick
cream and
l
tbsp of fresh egg white. Put in lots of finely cracked ice,
shake hard and long,
turn into a big goblet leaving a
few
ice lumps
floating. Add
2
or 3 good dashes of orange flower water. Now fill up
with chilled Number
l
grade club soda. Stir once. Serve immediately
and drink soon thereafter, since no gin fizz gains virtue even from
brief neglect.
THE BIRD of PARADISE, a COLOURFUL, EYE-FILLING EXPERIENCE
WE FouND in SIGNING OuR NAMES to the BooK at the
STRANGERS
CLUB,
COLON, PANAMA
T~is
strange little club has many famous names in its
l~gbook,
Robmson of the
SVAAP,
Alain Gerb-ault, poor Dick Halliburton
whom we first met in Singapore before he flew to Sarawak in
1932,
sitting at table with Ruth Elder and Walter Camp. We always have
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