Brandy Cocktails

All the recipes on this page are taken from Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide (1862).

Recipes for Comparison

Brandy Daisy

(Use small bar-glass.)

• Take 3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup.
• 2 or 3 dashes of Curacoa cordial
• The juice of half a small lemon.
• 1 small wine-glass of brandy.
• 2 dashes of Jamaica rum.

Fill glass one-third full of shaved ice. Shake well, strain into a large cocktail glass, and fill up with Seltzer water from a syphon.

Brandy Sour

(Use small bar-glass.)

• Take 1 large tea-spoonful. of powdered white sugar,
• dissolved in a little Apollinaris or Seltzer water.
• The juice of half a lemon.
• 1 dash of Curacoa.
• 1 wine-glass of brandy.

Fill the glass with shaved ice, shake, and strain into a claret glass. Ornament with orange and berries

Brandy Crusta

(Use Small bar-glass.)

• Take 3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup.
• 1 dash of Boker's bitters.
• 1 wine-glass of brandy.
• 2 dashes of Curacoa.
• 1 dash lemon juice.

Before mixing the above ingredients, prepare a cocktail glass as follows: Rub a sliced lemon around the rim of the glass, and dip it in pulverized white sugar, so that the sugar will adhere to the edge of the glass. Pare half a lemon the same as you would an apple (all in one piece) so that the paring will fit in the wine-glass, as shown in the cut. Put the above ingredients into a small whiskey glass filled one-third full of shaved ice, shake up well and strain the liquid into the cocktail glass prepared as above directed.

Brandy Fix

(Use small bar-glass.)

• Take 1 large tea-spoonful of fine white sugar dissolved
• in a little water.
• The juice of a quarter of a lemon.
• 3 dashes of Curacoa.
• 1 wine-glass of brandy.

Fill the glass two-thirds full of shaved ice. Stir well and ornament the top with slices of lemon or lime.

Tom Collins Brandy

(Use small bar-glass.)

• Take 5 or 6 dashes of gum syrup.
• Juice of a small lemon.
• 1 large wine-glass of Brandy.
• 2 or 3 lumps of ice;

Shake up well and strain into a large bar-glass. Fill up the glass with plain soda water and imbibe while it is lively.

Brandy Fizz

(Use medium bar-glass.)

• Take 1 tea-spoonful of powdered white sugar.
• 3 dashes of lemon juice.
• 1 wine-glass of brandy.
• 1 small lump of ice.

Fill up the glass with Apollinaris or Seltzer water, stir thoroughly and serve.

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