The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-18
COCKTAILS, OLD AND NEW.
Changes In the Reigning Fsvorites Recent
Inventions OF Power.

INVENTIONS VI FOwu''
DRY Manhattan cocktail for a lady.
was the order the waiter gave to the bar
| tender.
The bartender smiled "a he mixed 1t.
1T IL the fashion to order dry cock
tails he said to n customer when he had
handed the cocktail over to the waiter
yet o5 per cent. Of those who do order
them don't want them. On the contrary,
II they got a dry cocktail they'd think
they'd got a dose OF something very nasty
a great many people haven't any idea
what a dry Manhattan Is. You make a
cocktail dry by putting In French YER
mouth instead Of Italian. Lots OF ignorant
~bartenders. when asked to make a drv
cocktail. will merely omit the gum. o
that does no good at all.
In a number of places-good places. 1
mean-the mixers are compromising to
suit the fashion by putting half French
and half Italian vermouth Ia the Man
hsttans. That is a pleasing combination.
Then. too. some are mixing the bitters
by putting in part Angosturaand half
orange. That isn't a bad idea. either,
The Manhattan Is still the reigning
favorite, in the East at least After II
come the Martini, vermouth and Plymouth
kln tothtdllNs NlIfllHNiNl III oiihhh aih
especially in cocktails Is getting TO be recog-
nized more and more as the essential OF
a good drink.
You rarely hear a person nowadays
asking for a dash of absinthe. please.
Bartenders or mixers in many places are
getting into the habit Of leaving out the
bitters unless ask for them,
The Plymouth gin cocktail Is quite a
favorite but it is drunk mainly by people
who might be called regular drinkers.
Personally | don't think much OF 1t as an
appetizer. The Manhattan il the regular
early morning drink as il always was.
The newest OF cocktails Is the Princeton.
1t is said to have been invented by a bar
tender at a big chophouse bar
With II he invented a Yale cocktail so
a. 10 be on the safe side no matter which
college won in football this fall. Curiously
enough the Princeton cocktail wa the one
which survived the test put to II by drinkers
although Yale won the football game.
The Princeton cocktail is a sort OF parody
Of the old Manhattan. the bitters and alb
sinthe both being French.
Yale. according to the drink inventors,
has always been unfortunate in one way.
that no really blue drink could be devised 10
sui' It's colors Among the college men 1t
has been a standing Joke that Harvard
men could always find whiskey that was
red, II not really crimson that Princeton men
could get yellow or orange drinks If they
~ Ni'iit bu' 'l4aA l'ol oli -" 'tt'
had To celebrate their victories In liquids
whose colors were those Of other colleges
To be sure there came into some popu-
larity a fow year, ago a blush cortial called
Creme Yvette. but IL vas really Of violet
color rather than blue and IL IL not recorded
that IL was Welcomed by Yale men.
A drnk Familiarity called the Kirsch
cocktail has recently como into more or less
ogu as a morning head clearer lta
ingredients are klrschwasser and bitters.
People who drink a great deal 81 other
things think q gr AT deal Of the drink
Outside q IA. real cocktails on. 81 the
newest favorites il the bonanza, said TO
have been frat mixed In California Al the
bett bar in New York II has become quite
Il fHyorite
it, ingredients are clare and white
wine. usually he California products.
and about half a. much brandy ss wins
A person Who tried the bonanza aid the
other day that several ~ them would
make anyb0dy feel rich very soon
How sof' askei the untutorcf man
why, vac the reply. after you have
siI you want 10 go right up Ia the Grand
Central station and pi'k Out your own
private car Nov you kno~