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Jersey Cocktail

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).

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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 3 ingredients

  1. one teaspoonful of sugar
  2. one teaspoonful of orange bitters
  3. a sprig of verbena atop

Method

  1. Instead of crushed ice, put two nice little blocks in the tumbler, add one teaspoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of orange bitters, and half a wine-glass of old brandy.
  2. Top up with bottled cider, and mix with a spoon.
  3. Serve with a strawberry and a sprig of verbena atop.

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.