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What Shall We Drink?
One-sixth French Vermouth, one-sixth Italian Vermouth,
two-thirds dry gin, mixed in a taU, ice-filled glass. One olive
and a pinch from a lemon peel completes the mixture. Sam
figures you'll use discretion in measuring the ingredients.
OLD-FASHIONED APPLEJACK COCKTAIL
This one was contributed by J. P. McEvoy, one of
America's foremost humorists. I beheved he was spoofing,
but when I tried one of his Old-Fashioned Applejack Cock
tails, I felt like awarding him more than a zinc-lined pair of
spats. Here's the mirth-provoking mixture:
Oneteaspoon ofsugar,one-halflemon with juice,squeezed
on a "jigger" of Applejack,and ice water. A "jigger," as be
fore explained, is a portion as light or stiff as you wish to
make it. Some folks figure it as an ounce, or half a two-
ounce "pony" glass. Others more. A happy medium is two
ounces of Applejack. His recipe, by the way, won second
place in the contest mentioned.
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS COCKTAIL
For lack of a name, Gouverneur Morris's third winning
prize drink deserves his. Here's that noted author's idea of a
"real" cocktail. One-sixth French Vermouth, one-sixth
Itahan Vermouth,two-thirds gin,shaken in finely shaved ice
until there is double the amount of liquid originally poured
into the shaker. Well,it's cool, anyway,when poured into a
shell glass.
LAMBS'CLUB COCKTAIL
Mix in shaker one and a half oimces of dry gin, one and
a half ounces of French dry Vermouth and one ounce of
Itahan sweet Vermouth. Add a generous dash of Benedictine,
a teaspoon of"gum,"shake welland strain into cocktail glass.
LOFTUS COCKTAIL
Back in the days when Ceciha Loftus and Jefiferson de
Angehs were the hit of the London stage and later of the