Burke’s Complete Cocktail and Tastybite Recipes (1936)
1 oz brandy
1/2 oz French vermouth
1/2 oz Italian vermouth
3 dashes curacao
2 dashes absinthe
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.
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Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Bartender’s Guide (6th edition, 1946, or before; 1st ed. 1935)
2 oz rye or bourbon
1 egg white
1/4 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz lemon juice
Shake with ice and pour into 8-oz collins glass. Fill with seltzer water, decorate with lemon slice and cherry.
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Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Bartender’s Guide (6th edition, 1946, or before; 1st ed. 1935)
3/4 oz brandy
3/4 oz white rum
3/4 oz triple sec
1/2 oz lime juice
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass. This drink is also better known as Between the Sheets.
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Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Bartender’s Guide (6th edition, 1946. Could be in earlier ones; 1st ed. is 1935)
2 or 3 oz rum
1/4 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz lemon juice
soda water or ginger ale
Shake first three ingredients with ice and pour into 12-oz collins glass. Fill with club soda or ginger ale, insert spiral of orange or lemon peel (or both) and dangle end over rim of glass. (In The Fine Art Of Mixing Drinks, David Embury says, “A cooler is a Horse’s Neck with a kick.”)
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Old Mr. Boston Deluxe Bartender’s Guide (6th edition, 1946, or before; 1st ed. 1935)
3/4 oz dry gin
3/4 oz apricot nectar liqueur
1/4 oz grenadine
1/4 oz lemon juice
Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.
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Tom Hussion (Boston’s most famous cocktail, invented at Locke-Ober in 1898)
2 oz rye whiskey (if you can’t find rye, use bourbon)
3/4 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1/2 oz real pomegranate grenadine
Shake all ingredients very well over ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with orange wheel and cherry if desired.