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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/bartendersguide01thom THE BAR-TENDERS' GUIDE, A COMPLETE CYCLOPEDIA OP PLAIN AND FANCY DRINKS, CONTAINING CLKAR AND RKLIABLE DIRECTIONS FOR MIXI^G ALL THE BEVEEAGB8 USED IN THE UNITED 8TATK8, TOGETHER WITH TIIE MOST POPULaK BRITISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, AND SPANISH RECIPES, EMBRACING PUNCHES, JULEPS, COIMtERS, KTC, ETC., ETC., IN ENDLESS VARIETY. BY JEEKY THOMAS, Formeriy principal Bar-tender at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and the Planter's House, St Lo«l TO WHICH 18 APPENDED A MANUAL FOR THE MANUFACTURE oir AFTER THE MOST APPROVED MBTHODS NOW USED IN TIIE DISTILLATION OF LIviUOKS AND BEVERAGES, DESIGNED FOR THE SPECIAL USK OS" MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN WINES AND SPIRITS, GROCERS, TAVERN-KEEP BRS, AND PRIVATE FAMI- LIES, THE SAME BEING ADAPTED TO THE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA8. glta^triM %vUl% §mxipim €nqxmmp. THE WHOLE CONTAINING O^ER 600 J^XuXT JLBIulE RECIPES. BY CHEISTIAISr SCHUI.TZ, ProfoMor of Chemistry, Apothecary, and Manufa ,turer of WiniS, Liqnon^ Cordial^ &c., &c., from Berne, Switzerland. NEW YORK: DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS, IN'o. 18 ^NlSr STIiEKT. Entered according to ^wt J Congress, in tbo year 1S82, tjr DICK & FirZGEr.ALD, ill the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the UuiU d StaUi for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. In all ages of the world, and in all countries, men have in- dulged in "so- cial drinks." They have al- ways possess- ed themselves of some popu- lar beverage apart from water and those of the breakfast and tea table. Whether it is judicious that m a n k i n d should con- tinue to indulge in such things, or whether it would be wiser to abstain from all enjoyments of that character, it is not our province to decide. We leave that question to the moral philosopher. We simply contend that a relish for "social drinks" is universal; that those drinks exist in greater variety in the United States than in any other country in the world ; and that he, therefore, who proposes to impart to these drinks not only the most palatable but the most wholesome characteristics of which they may be made susceptible, is a genuine public benefactor. That is exactly our object in introducing this little volume to the public. We do not propose to persuade any man to drink, for instance, a punch, or a julep, or a cocktail, who has never happened to make the acquaint- ance of those refreshing articles under circumstances calculated to induc(} more intunate relations; but we do propose to instruct those whose ''in- timate relations" in question render them somewhat fastidious, in the daintiest fashiuus tliereunto pertaining. We very well remember seeing one day in London, in the rear of the \ 1 PKEFACE. Bank of England, a small drinking saloon that had been set up hy a peripatetic American, at the door of Avhich was placed a board covered with the unique titles of the American mixed drinks supposed to be pre- pared within that limited establishment. The "Connecticut eye-open- ers" and "Alabama fog-cutters," together \>ith the "lightning-smashes" and the "thunderbolt-cocktails," created a profound sensation in the crowd assembled to peruse the I^ectarian bill of fare, if they did not produce custom. It struck us, then, that a list of all the social drinks —^the composite beverages, if we may call them so—of America, would really be one of the curiosities of jovial literature ; and that if it was combined with a catalogue of the mixtures common to other nations, and made practically useful by the addition of a concise description of the various processes for "brewing" each, it would be a "blessing to mankind." There would be no excuse for imbibing, with such a book at hand, the "villainous compounds" of bar-keeping Goths and Vandals, who know no more of the amenities of bon vivant existence than a Hot- tentot can know of the bouquet of champagne. "There's philosophy," says Father Tom in the drama, "even in a jug of punch." TVe claim the credit of "philosophy teaching by example," then, to no ordinary extent in the composition of this volume ; for our index exhibits the title of eighty-six different kinds of punches, together with a universe of cobblers, juleps, bitters, cups, slings, shrubs. Sec, each and all of which the reader is carefully educated how to concoct in the choicest manner. For the perfection of this education, the name, alone, of Jeyrij Thomas is a sufficient guarantee. He has travelled Europe and America in search of all that is recondite in this branch of the spirit art. He has been the Jupiter Olympus of the bar at the Metropolitan Hotel in this city. He was the presiding deity at the Planter's House, St. Louis. He has been the proprietor of one of the most recherche saloons in New Orleans as well as in New York. His very name is synonymous in the lexicon of mixed drinks, with all that is rare and original. To the "Wine Press," edited by F. S. Cozzens, Esq., we are indebted for the composition of several valuable punches, and among them we may particularize the celebrated "Nuremburgh," and the equally famous " Philadelphia Fish House" punch. The rest we owe to the inspiration of Jerry Thomas himself, and as he is as inexorable as the Medes and Persians in his principle that no excellent drink can be made out of any thing but excellent materials, we conceive that we are safe in assert- ing that whatever may be prepared after his instructions will be able to speak eloquently for itself. " Good wine needs no bush," Shakespeare tells us and over one of Jerry's mixtures eulogy is quite as redundant. CONTENTS. 7%l8 TaKe of 0,mtmt8 refers to the Number of v^kca Recipe, ani» xot to tna number of the page«. For the Table of Contents tc the "Manual fo^ .ixE Man- UFACTUiiE OF CkjEDiALS, Strups, Ac," «*« page 235. EKCIPB RECIPE Absinthe, How to drink 210 Bottle of Champagne Cocktail 110 A la Ford, Punch 26 " Brandy Cocktail 106 " liomain, Punch 67 Brandy and Gum 217 Ale Punch 73 " " Soda 216 " Flip 147 " " Rum Punch 5 " Sangaree 129 " Burnt, and Peach 199 Apple, Pine, Punch 18 " Champarelle 166 " Toddy 132 *' Cocktail 107 " Punch-. 72 " " Fancy 108 A Protestant Bishop 183 " Crusta, 116 Archbishop ISO " Fix 140 'Arf-and-'arf 212 " Flip 150 Arrack 50 " Julep 89 " Punch 51 " Poneyof 215 " " another method. 52 " Punch 2 Auld Man's Milk 80 " " for a Party 8 " Sangaree 127 Badminton 195 " Scaffa 167 Balaklava Nectar 171 " Shrub 159 Baltimore Egg Nogg. 84 " Sling 136 Barbadoes Punch 70 " Smash 94 Bimbo Punch . 53 Sour 142 Bishop, h la Prusse 178 " Straight 213 " another recipe 179 Toddy 103 " a Protestant.... 183 Brunow, Cup, a la 169 Bitters, Decanter 198 Burnt Brandy and Peach 199 " and Sherry 219 Black Stripe 200 Cafe, Faivre's Pousse 164 Blue Bicker 197 " Parisian.. 168 Bottled Velvet 192 " Santina's . lOi 6 CONTENTS. BKCIPK BEOIPB Canadian Punch 48 Crusta, The 105 Capillaire 65 " Whiskey 117 " another method 66 Cup, k la Brunow 169 Captain Marryatfs Kecipe for Mint " Marmora 172 Julep 87 " Wyndham 173 Cardinal ISl Cup, Chablis 193 Catawba Cobbler 100 " Claret 186 Century Club Punch 59 " " la Lord Saltoun 191 Chablis Cup 193 " " Champagne 169 Champagne Cobbler 99 " " Porter 187 Cocktail 110 Curafoa, English 188 " Cup 193 " Punch 20 " or Claret Cup, ii la Bru- Currant Eftervescing draught 235 now 169 " Shrub ... 156 " Punch 12 " White 155 Champarelle, Brandy 166 Czar, Nectar for the 169 Cherry Shrub 154 Cider Nectar 194 Decanter Bitters, "Jerry Thomas's " Punch 74 Own" 19S Claret Cobbler 102 D'Orsay Punch 79 " Cup 186 Draught Lemonade 232 " " i la Brunow 169 Drink for Dog Days 229 » " la Lord Saltoun 191 " Families 233 " Mulled 124 Dry Punch 37 " Punch 14 Duke of Norfolk Punch 60 Cobbler, Catawba 100 " " " another method 60 " Champagne 99 " Claret 102 Effervescing Draught 235 " Hock 101 Egg and Sherry. 218 " . Sauterne 103 Egg Flip 143 " Sherry 98 " another method 149 The 97 EggNogg 80, 81 Whiskey 104 " Baltimore 84 Cocktail, Bottle of Brandy 106 " for a Party 83 " Brandy 107 " General Harrison's 85 " Champagne 110 Hot 82 " Fancy Brandy lOS " Sheriy 86 " " Gin 112 Eggs, Mulled Wine without 120 " Gin Ill " with 121 " Japanese 113 " " " with the white of 122 " Jersey 114 English Curafoa 189 Soda 115 " Milk Punch 24 " The 105 " " " another method. 25 " Whiskey 109 Cold Punch 54 Faivre's Pousse Caf6 164 " Whiskey Punch 7 Fancy Brnudy Cocktail 103 Columbia Skin 206 " Drinks 1G1 Copenhagen 174 " Gin Cocktail Ill Crimean Cup, h la Marmora 172 Fir^h-house Punch, Philadelphia 4fi " " " Wyndhara 173 Fixes and Sours 139 Crusta, Brandy 116 Fix, Brandy 140 " Gin 118 " Gin . 141 CONTENTS. 7 RECrPE RECIPE t, Santa Cruz 141 Imperial Punch 41 Flannel, Yard of 148 " Easpberry Whiskey Punch 77 Flip, Ale 147 Indian Punch, West C9 " Brandy 150 Irish Whiskey Punch 6 " Egg 148 Italian Lemonade 1S9 " " another method 149 Negus and Shrub 144 Japanese Cocktail US •* Bum 145 Jelly, Punch 27 " " another method 146 " Jerry Thomas's Own Bitters" 198 Jersey Cocktail 114 General Harrison's Egg Nogg. 85 Juleps, Eemarks on 87 Gin and Pine 202 Julep, Brandy 89 " Tansy 203 " Gin 90 •* " Wormwood 204 " Mint, Captain Marryatt's Ee- ** Cocktail Ill cipe for 87 " Fancy 112 " Mint 88 Crusta 118 " Pineapple 92 " Fix 141 " Whiskey 91 " Julep 90 " Punch 10 Kirschwasser Punch 78 •» " bySoyer.