Yale Cocktail (1895)

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:34 PM -0400 6/26/00, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>YALE COCKTAIL (continued)
>
>   This is a terrible omission by the OED!
>   From MODERN AMERICAN DRINKS, HOW TO MIX AND SERVE ALL KINDS OF CUPS AND
>DRINKS (Merriam Company, NY, 1895) by George J. Kappeler, pg. 44:
>
>   _Yale Cocktail._
>   Fill a mixing-glass half-full fine ice, three dashes orange bitters,
>one dash Peyschaud bitters, a piece lemon-peel, one jigger Tom gin.  Mix,
>strain into cocktail-glass; add a squirt of siphon seltzer.
>
And now, barely a century later, you can't even find half of the essential
ingredients on campus here.  Very sad.