Besides taking some wonderful photographs of vintage barware that we ultimately couldn’t find space for, Nick Noyes has provided me with venues and support to test some many of the larger recipes herein, as have Melissa Clark and Sherwin Dunner. Audrey Saunders and her crew at Pegu Club and Julie Reiner and hers at the Flatiron Lounge have made many an old drink to my specifications and acted as sounding boards for my half-mixed theories, and it is at their establishments you will find me—there, or online with Robert Hess at his DrinkBoy board or with the cocktail geeks who loiter on
www.egullet.com
.
Finally, my wife, Karen, and my daughter, Marina. Thanks, guys (and Karen, now you can have the dining room back). Without you, the book would mean nothing.
A FEW RECOLLECTIONS OF THE DISTANT PAST
The double Bronxes at the Holland House . . . the stingers at the Belmont . . . the silver fizzes at the Manhattan . . . the ginger-ale highballs at the bar of the Buckingham . . . the Benedictine at the Lafayette . . . the seidels of Münchner at Lüchows . . . the Navy Rainbows at Maxim’s . . . the Château Yquem at Mouquin’s . . . the Manhattan Cocktails at the Hotel Knickerbocker . . . the gin daisies at the Astor . . . the yellow chartreuse at the Brevoort . . . the Infuriators at the Beaux Arts . . . the pousse-cafés at Rector’s . . . the Stone Fences at Churchill’s . . . the milk punches at the Savoy . . . the Martinis at Sherry’s . . . the champagne cocktails at Delmonico’s . . . the Central Park Souths at the Plaza . . . the sherry flips at the Cadillac . . . the Clover Clubs at Bustanoby’s . . . the Jack Roses at Eberlin’s . . . the beakers of stout at Dinty Moore’s . . . the Louis Röderer at Martin’s . . . the mint juleps at the Casino . . . the kummel, with a dash of tabasco, at the Fifth Avenue . . . the Tom & Jerry at Shanley’s . . . the Pilsener with scrambled eggs and Irish bacon at 5 a.m. at Jack’s. . . .
—
Life
magazine, 1925
INDEX
Absinthe Cocktail
Absinthe Frappé
absinthe spirits
Ale Sangaree
Alexander, Cato
Alexander, J. E.
Anderson, Tom
applejack spirits
Apple Martini
Appletinis
Apple Toddy
Aviation Cocktail
Bakewell Punch
Baldwin, Charlie H.
Baltimore Egg Nogg
Bamboo Cocktail
Barbadoes Punch
Barbados Blackstrap
bar gear
cherries and olives
eggs
glassware
ice
sugar
twists
Barnum, P. T.
Barrough, Philip
Berry Interesting
berry syrups
Bijou Cocktail
bitters
see also
recipes
Blackthorn Sours
Blow My Skull Off (Almost)
Blue Blazer
Boker’s Bitters
Bombo.
See
Toddies
Boorde, Andrew
Boothby, Bill
Borthwick, John
Boston Cooler
“A Bowl of Punch,”
Brandy Julep
Brandy Punch
Brandy Sangaree
Brandy Sling
brandy spirits
Brandy Toddy
Bronx Cocktail
Buck and Breck
Burnt Brandy
Byron, O. H.
Calvino
Campbell, Charles B.
Campbell, Charles W.
Canfield, Richard
Catawba.
See
Chatham Artillery Punch
Catawba Cobbler
Chambers, Robert
Champagne Cobbler
Champagne Cocktail
champagne spirits
Champarelle
Chatham Artillery of Savannah
Chatham Artillery Punch
cherries
Cherry Smash
Chinese Cocktail
Chocolate Martinis
Claret Cobbler
Claret Punch
Clemens, Samuel
Clover Club (Friar’s Club)
Clover Club Cocktail
Clover Leaf
Coal Brandy
Cobblers
see also
recipes
Cocktail (Fancy)
Cocktail (Improved)
Cocktail (Plain)
Cocktail, birth of
Gold Rush era and
growing up and
New York and points south and west and
where and when and
see also
Crustas Cocktails
Cocktail glass
Cocktails (plain, fancy, improved, and old-fashioned)
Fancy
history of
Holland Gin Cocktail
Improved
Plain
Prince of Wales’s Cocktail
Sazerac Cocktail
see also
Crustas Cocktails; recipes
Cocktails, evolved
Buck and Breck
Champagne Cocktail
East India Cocktail
history of
Japanese Cocktail
Jersey Cocktail
Morning Glory Cocktail
Widow’s Kiss
see also
Crustas Cocktails; recipes
Coffee Cocktail
Cold Sling
Cold Whiskey Punch
Collins, John
Collins glass
Colony of Schuylkill
Columbia Skin.
See
Whisky Skin
Continental Sour
Coolers, popular
Florodora
Florodora Sextette and
history of
Joe Rickey
see also
recipes
Cooper, James Fenimore
Coughlin, John
Cozzen, Frederick S.
Craddock, Harry
Crosswell, Harry
Crushed Strawberry Fizz
Crustas Cocktails
Aviation Cocktail
Bronx Cocktail
Clover Club Cocktail
Daiquiri Cocktail
Gin Crusta
history of
Jack Rose Cocktail
Ward Eight
see also
recipes
Curaçao (Curaçoa) spirits
Curaçoa Punch
Daiquiri Cocktail
Daisies
New School
Old School
Dale, Alan
Dana, Richard Henry
Decanter Bitters, Jerry Thomas’s Own
de Lafayette, Marquis
Desmond, Norma
Dickens, Charles
Dirty Girl Scout
Dizzy Sours
Doolittle, Richard
Doten, Alf
Dr. Stoughton’s Elixir Magnum
see also
Crustas Cocktails
Drinks: How to Mix and Serve
Dry Martini Cocktail
Duffy, Patrick Gavin
Earle, George
earthenware mug
East India Cocktail
Edward, Albert (Prince of Whales)
egg drinks
Egg Nogg
Flips
history of
Tom & Jerry
see also
recipes
Egg Milk Punch
Egg Nogg (basic)
eggs
Egg Sour
El Dorado Punch
Electric Current Fizz
Elixir Magnum Stomachicum.
See
Dr. Stoughton’s Elixir Magnum
Elks’ Fizz
Enchantress
Ensslin, Hugo
Eppinger, Louis
Eye Openers
Fancy Vermouth Cocktail
Fiscal Agent
Fixes
Fizz (defined)
Fizz glass
Fizzes
see also
recipes
Fletcher, John
Flips
Florodora (basic)
Florodora, Imperial Style
Florodora Sextette
Foster, James
Foster, Stephen
fruit syrups
see also
recipes
Gascoine, George
Gebhard, Frederick
General Harrison’s Egg Nogg
Gibson, Walter . K.
Gibson Cocktail
Gilfain, Cyrus W.
Gin Crusta
Gin Julep
Gin Punch
Gin Rickey
gin spirits
Gin Toddy, Hot
glassware
Golden Fizz
Gold Rush era
Green, Daisy
Green Fizz
Gum Syrup (Bartender’s)
Gum Syrup (True)
Hartwell, Richard Barksdale
Helper, Hinton
Highball
Hildreth, Fred
Hingston, Edward
Hock Cobbler
Holland Gin Cocktail
Horseradish Egg Sour
Hot Milk Punch
Hot Scotch
Hot Spiced Rum
Hot Whiskey Punch.
See
Whisky Skin
Howells, William Dean
ice
Imperial Cabinet Saloon
Irish Car Bomb
Irish Whiskey Skin
Irving, Washington
Jack Frost Whiskey Sours
Jack Rose Cocktail
Jacobson, Pauline
Japanese Cocktail
Jersey Cocktail
Jewett’s Fancy
Joe Rickey
John Collins (Tom Collins)
Johnson, Harry
Jones, Charles
Juleps
see also
recipes
Kappeler, George
Keene, James R.
Killackey, Michael J.
Knickerbockers
Lamb’s Wool
large bar (mixing) glass
Lawlor, Chris
Leland, Charles Godfrey
Liebling, A. J.
Limmer’s Hotel
Lowe, Paul
LuLu Cocktail
MacDonald, James A.
MacElhone, Harry
Madeira Sangaree
Madeira Sling
Mahoney, Charlie
Mahoney Cocktail
Mango Martinis
Manhattan Cocktail
Formula(Old Standard)
Formula(Reverse)
Formula(New Standard)
maraschino liqueur spirits
Mardi Gras
Marie Wilson Martini Cocktail
Dry Martini Cocktail
Formula(Turf Club)
Formula(Martinez Cocktail)
Formula(Fourth Degree)
Mayer, Brantz
McKenna, Hinky-Dink
McLaughlin, Richard
measurements, table of
Melville, Herman
Metropole Cocktail
Metropolitan Hotel
Mikado Cocktail
Milk Punch
Mint Julep
Mint Sling
Mississippi Punch
“Mister” Collins
mixing drinks, how to
bar gear and
cherries and olives
eggs
glassware
ice
sugar
twists
history of
Archaic Age
Baroque Age
Classic Age
spirits and
absinthe
applejack
brandy
champagne
Curaçao (Curaçoa)
gin
maraschino liqueur
measurements, table of
quantities
rum
whiskey
mixologists’ top drinks
see also
recipes
Modern Tea Punch
Morning Glory Cocktail
Morning Glory Fizz
Morrissey, John
Narragansett Cooler
National Guardh Regiment Punch
New Orleans Fizz (Ramos Gin Fizz)
New York Sour
Nichol, Duncan
Noriyuki, Tateishi Onojirou
O’Brien, Jimmy
olives
Peach Brandy Punch, Extra Extra
Peale, Charles Wilson
Pepys, Samuel
Philadelphia Fish-House Punch
Pineapple Julep
pineapple syrups
Pisco Punch
Plymouth Gin
Police Gazette Fizz
pony glass
Poole, William
Port Wine Sangaree
see also
recipes; Sangaree
Prequel (Original Cocktail)
see also
Crustas Cocktails; recipes
Prescription Julep
Price, Joseph
Prince of Wales (Edward, Albert)
Prince of Wales’s Cocktail
Princeton Cocktail
Punch, Bowl of
Punches
Barbadoes Punch
Brandy Punch
Chatham Artillery Punch
Claret Punch
Cold Whiskey Punch
Collins glasses
Curaçoa Punch
El Dorado
Enchantress
Fizz (defined)
Gin Punch
history of
Hot Milk Punch
Hot Whiskey Punch.
See
Whisky Skin
John Collins (Tom Collins)
Milk Punch
Mississippi Punch
National Guardh Regiment Punch
Philadelphia Fish-House Punch
Pisco Punch
Punch, Bowl of
Rocky Mountain Punch
St. Charles Punch
Sauterne Punch
h Regiment Punch
Tamarind Punch
Vanilla Punch
West Indian Punch
see also
recipes
Punches, lesser
Daisies
Fixes
Fizzes
Knickerbockers
Sours
see also
recipes
Ramos, Henry Charles
Ramos Gin Fizz
Ramsey Cooler
raspberry syrups
Rawling, Ernest P.