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Mixed Drinks
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MIXING A BRANDY SOUR
Place in a tumbler a teaspoonful of strained lemon juice
and add two teaspoons of "gum." Pour in two ounces of
Brandy of any kind you particularly like and add a few
tablespoons of shaved ice. Stir or shake thoroughly and
strain into cocktail glass, topping with thin slice of orange
cut into halves, or use pineapple cubes or other fruits as
you desire.
MINUTE MAN HIGHBALL
Get out your highball glass, drop in a few chunks of
cracked ice, pom in two ounces of Applejack, an ounce of
Port Wine, a tablespoon of orange juice, and fill glass with
seltzer, vichy or carbonated water, stirring shghtly before
drinking.
MIXING A GIN SOUR
Two ounces of Gin, either dry, sweet or sloe, form the
hase of the Gin Sour. Pour into tumbler with a teaspoon of
strained lemon juice and sweeten shghtly with one teaspoon
of"gum" or rock candy syrup. Add a few tablespoonsful of
cracked ice, stir thoroughly and strain into cocktail glass,
topping with diced pineapple or quartered slice of orange
or both.
HOW TO MIX A HIGHBALL
Unless specially named, the highball, which probably is
scheduled to resume its tremendous popularity of the olden
days, is quickly and easily made. Let's call 'em Rum,Gin,
Sloe Gin or Bourbon Highballs, Rye High, Scotch Highball,
or Irish High—the dosage of aU is just the same. So, to
make a Rye Highball, for instance, you simply put into a
tall straight highball glass two ounces (or a bit more if you
wish a stronger drink) of rye whisky, add cracked ice and
fiU glass with ginger ale, vichy or seltzer, as preferred. Top
with a bit of tweaked yellow lemon peel. To make a Rum,
Gin, Sloe Gin, Scotch, Bourbon or Irish Highball, just use
either Gin or Whisky and perform the same rite of adding
ice and effervescent liquid and lemon peel.