The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26
ODD NAMES FOR DRINKS.
The Wet Hen, the Nose Cooler, the Ii
Hung Chang and Others.
BaitimOre Sun.)


Mr.. Regular Drinker finished his mint
julep, and with a cautionary wink
waved the beverage mixer down the
bar a few PAGES from where a later
customer was bUrying his face in a
tumbler. Leaning far over the bar,
the regular drinker asked in a con-
fidential whisper:
Say, whatn the thunder did that
fellow order? Say. what is he drink
ing, anyway? I didn't quite catch it
''Oh, he asked for a wet hen That's
another of those new drinks that crop
up in every hot spell, along with vari-
Gus brands of fizzes and rickeys."
And pray asked Mr.. Drinker,
what's a wet hen? "
well, now, you know tart or sour
drinks are liked best On hot days, and
yet some cocktail drinkers love their
dash of bitters. wet hen is made
exactly like a plain cocktail, with a
strong dash of Pechaud bitters and
half a lemon squeezed into it: so it's
a cross between a whisky cocktail and
whisky sour"
"Oh, l see," said Mr.. Drinker, as an
other came in and ordered . nose
cooler. Then Mr.. Drinker watched the
process of making the said cooler. and
the barkeeper explained in this wise:
That drink is simply the discovery
of customer of mine, who declares
that with the lips and nose kept Good
while their owner swallows an iced
draught the GOODNESS spreads itself
throughout the entire system
The 'nOse-cOoler' is in reality but
whisky sour with the glass handed up
to the customer crammed full of crack
ed ice. Never use syrup for the sweet
ening; just a small teaspoOnful of
nv 81,
up as if your life depended on it The
pulverized sugar spreads a creamy.
light amber tint through the whole
drink. Serve it, of course, without
straw or strainer, for the man who
orders it wants TO cool his nose"
A man ordering a Lii Hung Chang
over the bar might appear crazy to the
uninitiated, but as matter of fact. he
gets simply gin, with a dash of .fizz in
it, sweetened with sugar and made
tart with lemon instead of lime 1t is
what might be termed a reasonably
long drink and as cold as ice can make
it. and as insinuating. so to speak, as
the willy old Celestial who is accredited
with having such love and generation
for the foreign devils" now in the
F'lowery Kingdom.
A horses neck is an Atlantic City
commodity, and few barkeeDers in
Baltimore can make one. They were
first invented by a bartender at a
popular resort there inst as the pro-
prietOr was about to discharge him.
So great did the demand for horses
necks" become that the man kept his
job and prospered. This drink is very
long and cool. It is composed of a
bottle of imported ginger ale, whisky
to suit the taste and plenty Of ice. A
HhOrSe collar is similar only hrapdxy
is used in making ii instead of whisky.
The drinks most sold, according to
several prominent caterers to the public
thirst, are mint juleps, ever comfort
ing and tempting in the summer, and
whisky smaShes The man who can
make good juleps is 2 prize not to be
.turned lightly away from the club or
saloon, and some old-time colonies
and majors would do more these hot
days for their julep mixer than for
their cooks