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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
palate. Either dilute Jamaica with white rum like Bacardi, or some
medium rum like Barbados. Don't forget that Demerara can be as
high as
160
proof!
WORDS to the LIQUID WISE No. X, on the ABBREVIATION
of MINT JULEP STRAWS
The final garnish of emerald mint is not merely to look at.
If
we
must have, or prefer, straws-make them short straws. Just a couple
of inches peeping out is correct. Thus the olfactory proboscis must
be
buried in the fragrant herbage, something not the case with the crude
long affuirs through which certain folk drink ice cream sodas.
THE KINGSTON
CRUSTA.,
BEING a PARALLEL THOUGHT to the
MARTINIQUE
CRUSTA,
on PAGE
74,
only from JAMAICA
Hardy Jamaican planters
turn
this same Martinique drink into
something vastly different by the startling addition of
~
tsp of Ja–
maica Ginger, or the equivalent of Hell-Fire Bitters, see Page
153·
. . . Still hardier Jamaicans even wind this business up further by
dusting some cayenne pepper on top.
KIRSCH au CAFE-or
the FAMOUS BLACK
&
WHITE
CocKTAIL
This revivilier was found
in
the home of a Cairene resident before
going out on the Nile of a moonlight night, and on
h~s
dahabeah-a
luxurious and incredible sailing craft originated and maintained in
his case, for no good purpose.... Take
kirschwasser
and black very
strong coffee,
l
pony each. To this add
Yz
pony of good cognac, the
white of
l
small egg. Shake hard with cracked ice and serve in a tall
flute cocktail glass with a stem.
Allah, il Allah!
THE KNICKERBOCKER "PUNCH," a MEMORY of the GooD
DAYs of
1915
How many of us remember the Maxfield Parrish
Old King Cole
when it formerly hung-not at the St. Regis at all-in the old Hotel
Knickerbocker bar on the southeast corner of Broadway at ,µd Street?
. . . It smiled benignly down upon all sorts and conditions of men,