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Grenadine Cocktail

A historical recipe from Modern American Drinks, by George J. Kappeler (1895).

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A historical recipe

Modern American Drinks: How to Mix and Serve All Kinds of Cups and Drinks, by George J. Kappeler (1895). Project Gutenberg eBook #61065.

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. One dash gum-syrup
  2. three dashes Angostura bitters

Method

  1. Use Grenadine in place of gum-syrup in any kind of cocktail.
  2. Harvard Cocktail.
  3. One dash gum-syrup, three dashes Angostura bitters, half-jigger Italian vermouth, half-jigger brandy in half a mixing-glass of fine ice.
  4. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass, fill up with seltzer.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Modern American Drinks, by George J. Kappeler (1895). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #61065 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61065). 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.