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THE GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION
its ancient Capital. Being there for a third time was romantic enough
surely, but being there for the great festival was something else still–
especially with a fiancee by our side. . . . Well, we were all of these,
and our bland friend Mr. S. Suda, bar baron at the Miyako Hotel,
concocted this after considerable thought, and added his blessing on
our whole picture. . . . The results were benignly immediate.
Dry gin,
1
jigger
Cointreau,
I
jigger
Fresh pineapple juice,
I
pony
Lemon or lime, juice,
Yz
pony
Shake with finely cracked ice, and pour into a tall four ounce cock–
tail glass with stem. It is fairly sweet, so step up lemon a trifle and cut
down pineapple, if preferred.
SLOPPY JOE'S
MO/ITO,
which Is a BACARDI CoLLINs, PLus
Cubans and snobbish
Americanos
can sneer all they please at
Sloppy Joe's, the fact still remains that there are as good, and better,
and more varied cocktails suitable to our somewhat exacting taste
than any other spot
in
Cuba. Granted that the Vedado Club, the Coun–
try Club, the
N
acional, La Florida-all
have their known specialties,
still Sloppy Joe's assortment is not with them.
This is a greatly improved rum collins, and is best made with
Carta
de Oro
Bacardi, or any good medium light Santa Cruz, Haiti, or
Barbados rum.
If
Jamaica is used, don't use it straight, mix with white
rum, one part to four of latter.
Put several lumps of ice into a
16
oz collins glass, toss in r tsp sugar
or
gomme,
insinuate a spiral green lime peel about the ice, turn in
1Yz
jiggers of Bacardi; white, or Gold Seal, and the strained juice of r
small green lime-not a lemon. Stir once,
fill
with really good club
soda and garnish with a bunch of fresh
~int
....
If
for a lady, use
grenadine instead of sugar.
WORDS to the LIQUID WISE No. XII, on the PRETTY SENSE
of USING VARIOUS COLOURED FRUIT SYRUPS for SWEET–
ENING ALL SORTS of COLLINS DRINKS
Mix the usual Tom or John Collins, only instead of using sugar use
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