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BRONX
No.
2
BRONX
(WAL–
DORF)
BRONX
(Original)
'
PRE-PROHIBITION COCKTAILS
Two jiggers Gin
One jigger French Vermouth
One-half jigger Orange Juice
Two-thirds Gin
One-third Orange Juice
Two slices fresh Pineapple in glass
One-third Orange Juice
Two-thirds Gin
Dash of French Vermouth
Dash of Italian Vermouth
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Many claimants to the honor of inventing the Bronx
have arisen. It was an Old Waldorf tradition that the in–
ventor was Johnnie Solon (or Solan), popular as one of
the best mixers behind its bar counter for most of the
latter's history. This is Solon's own story of the Crea–
tion-of the Bronx:
"We had a cocktail 'in those days called the ;Duplex,
which had a pretty fair demand. One day, I was making
· one for a customer when in came Traverson, head waiter
of the Empire Room-the main dining room
in
the orig–
ina.1, Waldorf. A Duplex was composed of equal parts of
French and Italian Vermouth, shaken up with squeezed
orange peel, or tw_o dashes of Orange Bitters. Traverson
said, 'Why don't you get up a new cocktail? I have a
customer who says you can't do it.'
" 'Can't I?' I replied.
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"Well, I finished the
Duple~
I was
~~ing,
and a
ji:;'{:j~-~;thought came to me. I poured mto a m1xmg glass the
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equivalent of two jiggers of Gordon Gin. Then I filled
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