The Bar-Tender's Guide

Recipe versions

• Japanese Cocktail

  Thomas, Jerry, 1830-1885 · 1887

  • Take 1 table-spoonful of orgeat syrup.
  • 2 dashes of Boker’s bitters.
  • 1 wine-giass of brandy.
  • 1 or 2 pieces of lemon peel.
  • Fill the tumbler one-third with ice

  stir well with a spoon, and sirain into a cocktail glass.

• Sherry Cobbler

  Thomas, Jerry, 1830-1885 · 1887

  • Take 1 table-spoonful of fine white sugar.
  • 1 slice of orange, cut up into quarters.
  • 2 small pieces of pineapple.
  • Fill the glass nearly full of shaved ice
  • fill it up with sherry wine

  Shake up ornament the top with berries in season, and serve with a straw.

• Whiskey Smash

  Thomas, Jerry, 1830-1885 · 1887

  • 4 tea-spoonfuls of water
  • 3 or 4 sprigs of young mint.
  • 1 wine-glass of whiskey.

  Lake 1 tea-spoonful of fine white sugar. Proceed, exactly, as directed in the last recipe.