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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
dred men and women suddenly getting up and sprinting for the quad–
rangle of verandahs before the torrential rains put 4" of water where
they were sitting 5 minutes before! But the Raffles drink is best, why
we don't know, except that the best Planter's Punch on earth is at the
Myrtlebank in Kingston. When our soft-footed Malay boy brings the
4th Sling and finds us peering over the window sill at the cobra–
handling snake charmers tootling their confounded flutes below he
murmurs
"jaga baik-baik Tuan"-"jaga
bye-bye, too-wan," as it
sounds in English-or "take care master" as it means in English. The
Singapore Gin Sling is a delicious, slow-acting, insidious thing.
The original formula is r/3 each of dry gin, cherry brandy and
Benedictine; shake it for a moment, or stir it in a bar glass, with
2
fairly large lumps of ice to chill. Turn into a small ro oz highball
glass with one lump of ice left in and fill up to individual taste with
chilled club soda. Garnish with the spiral peel of r green lime.
In
other
ports
in
the Orient drinkers often use C
&
C ginger ale instead of
soda, or even stone bottle ginger beer.
Our own final improved formula calls for
2
parts dry or Tom gin,
to r part cherry brandy and r part Benedictine. This is dryer, not too
sweet. We also use a trifle more ice in the glass than the Raffies tech–
nique. One lump melts too quickly where we live among the coconut
palms!
THE SAHARA GLOWING HEART COCKTAIL, from the
HANDS of one ABDULLAH an
ARAB
MusLIM WIZARD back of MAHOGANY
at the MENA HousE
BAR,
near the PYRAMIDS of GHIZEH, which ARE
JusT Soura of CAmo, EGYPT
Watch this one when out under the moon
i~
a desert overnight
camp, riding camels out across the vast dunes, or strolling in the
moonlight around the Sphinx with some congenial -young woman
companion. Full many a mere man has gone and committed him–
self for life under that desert moon afteF a brace of Glowing Hearts,
as we have seen with these failing and rheumy eyes. The effect on us
was that, along with another American ne'er-do-well, we untethered