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HOW TO MIX A TUXEDO COCKTAIL
Shake two ounces of gin,two ounces of Sherry Wine and a
teaspoon of"gum,"add a dash of orange bitters,and pour.
HOW TO MIX A CARUSO COCKTAIL
Enrico Caruso's favorite! Toast, if you wiU,the memory
of that glamorous tenor of immortality, with a well stirred
mixture of one and a half ounces of Sherry wine, one and a
half ounces of French or Italian sweet Vermouth and one and
a half ounces of Holland gin. Pour into cocktail glass.
STINGER COCKTAIL
This was named many years ago because it was supposed
to "bite" the throat going down, and was assumed to be a
good bracer after a rather strenuous day—or party. At any
rate, here's the prescription from Dr. Bart Ender: Two
ounces of Cognac Brandy and one ounce of white Creme de
menthe shaken weU in iced shaker before straining into cock
tail glass. Another Stinger recipe that I recall is made up of
two ounces of Scotch Whisky,an ounce of Arrack and a dash
of Angostura Bitters.
YALE COCKTAIL
For the sons of Old Eli this preparation seems to hold
plenty of college atmosphere after a few of'em go down the
throat:Into a goblet halffull ofshaved ice,pourtwo ouncesof
Gin and a quarter teaspoon of Orange Bitters. Stir well and
strain into cocktail glass,filling remainder of glass with vichy,
seltzer or carbonated water. Four of these start the "Boola-
Boola"song.
TAMMANY COCKTAIL
The roar of the political tiger is heard and tasted in this
Tammany Cocktail. Its ingredients vary at will. It depends
on whether you are drinking one in the "silk stocking dis
trict" or the Bowery environs. Tammany is ubiquitous and
tactful,you know. So,for the higher-up sachemsofthe tribe,