Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion: Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States, Together With the Most Popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish Recipes
Philadelphia Fish House punch. The rest we owe to the inspiration of Jerry Thomas himself, and as he is as inexorable as the Medes and Persians in his principle that no excellent drink can be made out of any thing but excellent materials, we conceive that we are safe in assert ing that whatever may be prepared after his instructions will be able to Speak eloquently for itself. Good wine needs no bush, Shakespeare tells us and over one of Jerry's mixtures eulogy is quite as redundant.
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