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SUMMER DRINKS
Tom Collins.
Put into a large tumbler one tablespoonful of
icing sugar, three or four pieces of ice, one
wineglass of Old Tom gin, and thirty drops of
lime or lemon juice. Then pour in one bottle
of soda-water, mix well, remove the ice, and
serve.
Velvet.
Put into a small tumbler one wineglass of
still moselle, half a wineglass of sherry, a small
piece of rind of lemon, and a little icing sugar;
fill the tumbler with shaved ice, shake well, and
strain ; put on the top a sprig of verbena.
Whisky Daisy.
Put into a large tumbler the juice of a small
lemon, half a tablespoonful of icing sugar, six
drops of lime-juice, and dissolve with a squirt
of syphon seltzer. Nearly fill the glass with
shaved ice, add one wineglass of whisky, more
ice, and half a wineglass of yellow chartreuse ;
stir well, strain into another glass, ornament
with fruit, and serve.
White Lion.
Put into a small tumbler one and a half tea-
spoonfuls of icing sugar, and the thin rind of
half a lemon; then add one wineglass of Santa
Cruz or white rum, half a teaspoonful of curafoa,
and the like quantity of raspberry syrup; fill
with shaved ice, shake well, strain, and serve
with berries in season.