They have also digitized a vintage book of cocktail tips and recipes, "Drinks A La Mode," published in 1891.
Credit: De Salis, Mrs. (Harriet Anne)
Credit: De Salis, Mrs. (Harriet Anne)
Browse through it and you’ll find recipes for the Ching Ching, made with “a gill of liquid sunshine rum,” the Floster, an “American sensation,” and the Bosom Caresser, made with brandy, milk and a “new-laid egg.”
Here are five vintage cocktail recipes to mix up curated by the Ohio History Connection.
Cheers!
Roman Punch
Makes 6 cocktails
Ingredients:
2 cups lemonade
Juice of 2 oranges
8 ounces champagne
8 ounces rum
2 large egg whites
A few drops lemon juice
3 cups confectioners' sugar
Directions:
Stir together the lemonade, orange juice, champagne and rum in a punch bowl. Chill.
When ready to serve, make the meringue: whip the egg whites and lemon juice in a medium bowl until they hold soft peaks, then gradually beat in the confectioners' sugar. Pile into a serving bowl.
Fill cups with ice, ladle over the punch and top each with a dollop of meringue.
This punch was served at the 1897 inaugural ball of President William McKinley.
Recipe from “Drinks A La Mode” by Mrs. D.E. Salis, 1891
Credit: JIM WITMER
Credit: JIM WITMER
Whiskey Fizz
Ingredients:
½ tbsp. sugar
3-4 dashes of lemon juice
Seltzer water
1 wine glass of whiskey
Ice
Directions:
Add sugar and a squirt of seltzer water to dissolve.
Fill glass with ice and add whiskey
Stir and strain into a good sized fizz glass.
Balance with seltzer water.
Serve.
This recipe is from “The New & Improved Bartenders” Manual by Harry Johnson, 1882
Apple Knocker
Ingredients:
1 jigger of Smirnoff vodka
Apple juice
Directions:
Add vodka to a glass with ice.
Fill to the brim with apple juice.
Serve.
Recipe from How to Give a Vodka Party by Smirnoff Vodka, 1959
Credit: De Salis, Mrs. (Harriet Anne)
Credit: De Salis, Mrs. (Harriet Anne)
Vodka Martini
Ingredients:
1 part dry vermouth
4 parts Smirnoff vodka
Lemon peel
Directions:
To one part dry vermouth, add 4 parts Smirnoff which has been chilled in the freezer.
Serve in iced glasses.
Garnish with lemon peel.
Recipe from “How to Give a Vodka Party” by Smirnoff Vodka, 1959
Champagne Cup #11
Ingredients:
2 bottles champagne
½ pint of strawberry or lemon ice water
2 bottles soda water
Directions:
Mix all ingredients.
Add ice.
Serve immediately.
Recipe from “Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks,” 1869
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