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Maraschino Cocktail

A historical recipe from What to drink, by Stockbridge, Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) (1920).

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A historical recipe

What to drink: The blue book of beverages; recipes and directions for making and serving non-alcoholic drinks for all occasions, by Stockbridge, Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) (1920). Project Gutenberg eBook #76921.

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. ½ cupful of carbonated water
  2. ¼ cupful of the syrup
  3. 1 cupful of orange juice
  4. 1 cupful of cracked ice

Method

  1. ½ cupful of carbonated water, 4 Maraschino cherries, ¼ cupful of the syrup from the cherries, 1 cupful of orange juice, 1 cupful of cracked ice.
  2. Pour the syrup from the cherries, the orange juice and the ice into a cocktail shaker.
  3. Shake well, add the carbonated water, strain into cocktail glasses, add a cherry to each glass and serve very cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Sieve
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From What to drink, by Stockbridge, Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) (1920). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #76921 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76921). 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.