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THE EXOTIC DRINKING BOOK
THE PENANG COOLER, a NEw TROPICAL Exonc WE FmsT MET
in PENANG, PRINCE of WALES IsLAND, F.M.S., FoLLOWING a Sw1M
in
the MILK-WARM WATERS of the STRAITS of MALACCA
After a swim at the Aquatic Club, we came back to town and ran
into this, unexpectedly proposed by a semi-Chino barkeep at the
Eastern and Occidental Hotel. The mint gives it coolness, bite, and
character.
Dry gin,
1
jigger
Fresh pineapple juice,
2
jiggers
Green creme de menthe,
I
pony
Shake with shaved ice and serve with it in a tall cocktail glass with
stem. A flat glass was used out there, and ice was strained out-but the
more modern technique is best, using ruf electric mixer and leaving
ice m.
THE PENDENNIS CLUB'S FAMOUS SPECIAL
To
1
jigger of dry gin add
Yz
jigger of the best dry apricot brandy
procurable. Squeeze in the juice of
1
lime or
Yz
a small lemon, strained
of course, and trim with
2
dashes of Peychaud's bitters which has been
made for generations
in
New Orleans.... Split a ripe kumquat, now
available during the winter in most big grocery or fruit stores; take
out the seeds and put the
2
halves in a Manhattan glass. Stir the drink
like a Martini with lots of cracked ice and strain onto the golden fruit.
This is a sweeter Grande Bretagne, see Page 47.
TWENTY and SEVEN PICKER-UPPERS for the NINETEENTH
HoLE, which CAN not only ENABLE Us to GREET the NEw DAY UN–
DISMAYED but MAy-on OccASION-SA
VE
a
LIFE
There are times
in
every man's life when, through one reason or
both, a man feels precisely like Death warmed up.
In
such sorry plight
there is but one thing to do if we do not wish to sit and suffer through
a whole day waiting for the cool hand of normalcy to stroke our dry
and fevered brow-a Picker-Upper.
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