Mint Julep

This requires the best of everything if you would have it in perfection. Especially the mint and the whiskey or brandy. Choose tender, quick-grown mint, leafy, not long-stalked and coarse, wash it very clean, taking care not to bruise it in the least, and lay in a clean cloth upon ice. Chill the spirits likewise. Put the sugar and water in a clean fruit jar, and set on ice. Do this at least six hours before serving so the sugar shall be fully dissolved. Four lumps to the large goblet is about right—with half a gobletful of fresh cold water.

At serving time, rub a zest of lemon around the rim of each goblet—the goblets must be well chilled—then half fill with the dissolved sugar, add a tablespoonful of cracked ice, and stand sprigs of mint thickly all around the rim. Set the goblets in the tray, then fill up with whiskey or brandy or both, mixed—the mixture is best with brands that blend smoothly. Drop in the middle a fresh ripe strawberry, or cherry, or slice of red peach, and serve at once. Fruit can be left out without harm to flavor—it is mainly for the satisfaction of the eye. But never by any chance bruise the mint—it will give an acrid flavor "most tolerable and not to be endured."

To get the real old-time effect, serve with spoons in the goblets rather than straws. In dipping and sipping more of the mint-essence comes out—beside the clinking of the spoons is nearly as refreshing as the tinkle of the ice.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South, by Martha McCulloch Williams, 1913

Absinthe, French Service

Pour 1 pony of Absinthe into a Champagne glass which is standing in a bowl. Fill the bowl of your Absinthe glass with Shaved Ice and water. Raise the bowl and let the Ice Water drip into the Absinthe until the proper color is obtained. Serve in thin Bar glass.

Whiskey Scotch Hot

1 lump Sugar dissolved in Hot Whiskey glass.

1 jigger Scotch Whiskey.

Fill up with Hot Water.

1 slice Lemon Peel.

Stir and serve with Nutmeg sprinkled on top.

Cooperstown Cocktail

Use a large Bar glass.
Fill with Lump Ice.
One jigger of Sir Robert Burnette's Old Tom Gin.
½ pony of Italian Vermouth.
Six leaves of fresh Mint.

Shake ingredients well together. Strain and serve in Cocktail glass.

Drink Recipes: Continental Sour

Fill a large Bar glass ⅔ full Shaved Ice.
1 teaspoonful Bar Sugar dissolved in little Water.
Juice of ½ Lemon.
1 jigger of Whiskey, Brandy or Gin, as preferred.
Shake; strain into Sour glass; dash with Claret and serve.

Drink Recipes: Coffee Cocktail

Fill large Bar glass ⅔ full Shaved Ice.
1 fresh Egg.
1 teaspoonful Bar Sugar.
1 jigger Port Wine.
1 pony Brandy.
Shake; strain into medium thin glass; grate Nutmeg on top and serve.

Eggnog

1 Egg
1 teaspoonful Bar Sugar.
¾ jigger Brandy.
½ jigger Jamaica Rum.

Fill large Bar glass ½ full Shaved Ice. Fill up with Milk; shake thoroughly; strain into tall, thin glass and serve with little Nutmeg grated on top.

Bacardi Cocktail

Use a large Mixing glass.

Fill with Lump Ice.

½ jigger Cusinier Grenadine.

1 jigger Bacardi Rum.

Shake well and serve in a Cocktail glass.

Brandy Julep

Into a small Bar glass pour ¾ Wineglass of Water and stir in 1 heaping teaspoonful of Bar Sugar. Bruise 3 or 4 sprigs of Mint in the Sugar and Water with a Muddler until the flavor of the Mint has been extracted. Then withdraw the Mint and pour the flavored Water into a tall Shell glass or large Goblet, which has been filled with fine Ice, and add:

1 jigger of Brandy.

2 dashes Jamaica Rum.

Stir well; decorate with few sprigs of Mint by planting the sprigs stems downward in the Ice around the rim of glass; dress with Fruit and serve.

Drink Recipes: Champagne Cup IV

Two tablespoonfuls of sugar rubbed on the peel of a lemon and mixed with the juice of half a lemon, three slices of pineapple, one wine glass each of Maraschino and brandy and a quart each of apollinaris and champagne. Ice well.

Champagne Cup III

Rub three ounces of sugar on lemon peel and put in a punch bowl with the juice of four lemons, one quart of apollinaris, and one quart of orgeat. Beat this well. Then add one pint of brandy, half a glass of Jamaica rum and a glass of Maraschino. Strain into a bowl of ice and just before serving, pour in three quarts of champagne.

Champagne Cup II

Mix together two tablespoonfuls of sugar, the juice and shaved peel of a lemon, a few slices of cucumbers, one wine glass of Curacao, one quart of apollinaris and one quart of champagne. Pour over a block of ice in a punch bowl.