Skip to content

Apple Jack Sour

A historical recipe from The Flowing Bowl A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscen, by Edward Spencer (1903).

No ratings yet

A historical recipe

The Flowing Bowl A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscences, by Edward Spencer (1903). Project Gutenberg eBook #57179.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a tablespoonful of sugar

Method

  1. is but seldom called for in this tight little island.
  2. In America it is made in a large tumbler, with half a tablespoonful of sugar, the juice of half a lemon, a squirt of Seltzer water from a syphon, and a wine-glassful of old cider brandy.
  3. Nearly fill the glass with crushed ice, and ornament with any fruit in season.

Plating

Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Flowing Bowl A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscen, by Edward Spencer (1903). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #57179 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57179). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.