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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
Some people admire
Yz
tsp of sugar or
gomme.
It makes an insidious
drink that ladies prefer, often to their eventual risk, joy, and sorrow.
THE MANILA "LEAP FROG" COCKTAIL, another MEMORY
of the CRlsP DAYS
&
CooL NIGHTS up in BAGUIO, back in the fooRoTE
CouNTRY of LuzoN
Take r pony of Bacardi, the same of dry apricot brandy, add the
strained juice of r small lime or
~
lemon, colour with r tsp of
grenadine. Shake with lots of cracked ice and strain into a saucer type
champagne glass.... After home fabrication of
this
fine drink we
have found very de.finitely that the original Manila formula may be
improved by using r
Yz
ponies of Bacardi and
Yz
pony of
apricot,
everything else remaining the same. We must not forget that
apricot
is an insistent and penetrating flavour. We only need a small amount
to point up a single cocktail-never r pony! Gold Seal Bacardi is best,
again; the white lacks flavour.
THE BACARDI "LEA
VE
IT to
ME,"
from the BAR BooK of an
INFANTRY MAJOR STATIONED at FoRT WILLIAM McKINLEY, near
MANILA
Fill the shaker
Yz
way with cracked ice, then put in
I
jigger of
Carta de Oro
Bacardi, r tsp maraschino, the juice of
I
small green
lime, r tsp raspberry syrup. Turn into a saucer champagne glass with
3 or 4 small bits of ice, and hit with a spot of chilled club soda.
A
pretty, flavourful and refreshing cocktail.
MONK ANTRIM'S
LINTIK
COCKTAIL, which REALLY lsN'T
any SPECIES of CocKTAIL at ALL, but a SonT of LIQUID TRIPLE THREAT
ORIGINATED for REASONS STRICTLY DISHONOURABLE, but ELECTRIFYING;
&
in ADDITION a BRlEF SoRT of BIOGRAPHY of the GENTLEMAN HIMSELF
We appear to refer to Monk fairly often in this volume, and there is
a reason besides his being a careful, almost clinical, student of potable
liquids. He happens to be one of the most interesting chaps who ever
hit the Islands. When we first knew him Monk lived vividly, to say
the least. He had a drink memo book, contents of which had been
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