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Cocktails
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top of tumbler. Mix with spoon, strain and serve even por
tions in shells, filling each shell with soda water. A nice
summer drink without much alcohohc content.
MIXING A HARVARD COCKTAIL
Harvard, always traditionally hberal and still so, gave
birth to this cocktail in the "dear old days" before Prohibi
tion,and the Harvard Cocktail is hkely to be just as popular
now in our newfound freedom. Here's how to mix onefor just
you and me:
Into the iced shaker pour two ponies (four ounces) of
brandy,two ponies of sweet Vermouth,about a half teaspoon
of orange bitters,"gum"to sweeten as you desire and shake
well before straining into our two cocktail glasses. I'U have a
halflemon slice floating in mine,please.
HOW TO MIX THE ALEXANDER COCKTAIL
Ice your shaker and pour in one and one-half ounces each
of dry gin, Creme de Cacao and pure cream. Shake thor
oughly and pour into cocktail glass.
HOW TO MIX THE CORAL COCKTAIL
Down in the West Indies—Havana especially—this is a
favorite drink of American women tourists or vacationists.
To make the Coral Cocktail,pourinto iced shakertwo ounces
sweet or dry gin,one ounce of any single or mixed fruit syrup
and one ounce of sweet or dry Italian Vermouth. Shake till
very cold and serve in cocktail glass.
HOW TO MAKE A BORDEAUX COCKTAIL
From the land of the poilu and franc comes the Bordeaux
Cocktail,relished during war days by our boys"Over There."
Here's how to mix one:One and a half ounces each of dry gin,
ApricoteUe and orange juice. Shake well in iced shaker and
strain into cocktail glass. Easy, isn't it? Well, sometimes