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Brandy Cocktail

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Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. One wine
  2. Cocktail
  3. Brandy
  4. Angostura bitters

Method

  1. To save wearisome repetition of words, it should be stated at the outset that the cocktail is almost invariably mixed in a small tumbler, in which the necessary crushed ice has been placed first.
  2. One wine-glass of brandy, thirty drops of gum syrup, six drops of Angostura bitters, and twenty drops of curaçoa.
  3. Stir, and shake well.
  4. Place a small shred of lemon-peel atop.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Vegetable peeler
  • Wooden spoon
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.