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BRIEF HINTS TO BARTENDERS
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Icc must always be washed clean before being
used, and placed in the glass with either an ice
scoop or tongs.
Fruit must not be handled, but picked up with a
silver spoon or fork. When beverage is strained in
a glass add the fruit after straining; in other cases
put the fruit in the glass at once.
In preparing any kind of a hot drink, the glass
should always be rinsed lirst in hot water, so as to
lessen the chance of the glass breaking, as well as to
serve the drink sufficiently hot.
Shaved ice should be used in cold drinks where
spirits form the principal ingredient, and no water is
used. When eggs, milk, wine, vermouth, seltzer, or
other mineral waters are used in preparing a drink,
it is advisable to use small lumps of ice, which should
always be removed before serving.
It is difficult to dissolve sugar in spirits; it is
always advisable, therefore, to dissolve it in a small
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