H. P. W. Cocktail
From A bachelors cupboard, 1906
Presented as published in 1906. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
H. P. W.' cocktail, which was intro- duced by Harry Payne Whitney at the Ardsley Club, and later at his Adirondack camp; and the good fel- lows who were initiated into its seductiveness agreed then and there that it should be christened after their popular host, so here we have it : " '' There's a drink ' on the beam * for you, lady!* —Pratt, THE "H. P. Mix carefully in a measuring glass one W."' COCK- part of Italian vermouth and one part of TAIL jj.y Gordon gin. Add the peel of an orange and frappe. 147 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD A Dissertation on Drinks " There is a new cocktail served in New York at Sherry's and Martin's and the Cafe des Ambassadeurs which is appropriately known as ' the Perfect Cocktail.' This is how it is mixed : " PERFECT Mix one part Italian vermouth, one part • COCKTAIL French vermouth, and one part Gordon gin. A
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