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    McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion: A Comprehensive and Practical Guide for Preparing all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Mixed Drinks and Popular Beverages of the Day According to the Approved and Accepted Methods of the Profession
    McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion: A Comprehensive and Practical Guide for Preparing all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Mixed Drinks and Popular Beverages of the Day According to the Approved and Accepted Methods of the Profession
    McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion: A Comprehensive and Practical Guide for Preparing all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Mixed Drinks and Popular Beverages of the Day According to the Approved and Accepted Methods of the Profession
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    McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion: A Comprehensive and Practical Guide for Preparing all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Mixed Drinks and Popular Beverages of the Day According to the Approved and Accepted Methods of the Profession

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    Originally published for private clubhouses and the gentleman’s sideboard, this vintage collection of bar drink recipes offers a classic array of cocktails and mixed drinks.

    First printed in 1883, McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion is a meticulously detailed guide to barkeeping. Offering directions for preparing many popular cocktails containing absinthe, cider, vermouth, sherry, soda, wine, gin, and more, this recipe book is the perfect traditional guide to mixology.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVintage Cookery Books
    Release dateAug 25, 2017
    ISBN9781473339316
    McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion: A Comprehensive and Practical Guide for Preparing all Kinds of Plain and Fancy Mixed Drinks and Popular Beverages of the Day According to the Approved and Accepted Methods of the Profession

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      McDonough's Bar-Keepers' Guide and Gentlemen's Sideboard Companion - Anon

      MCDONOUGH’S

      BAR-KEEPERS’ GUIDE,

      ——AND——

      GENTLEMEN’S SIDEBOARD COMPANION.

      A COMPREHENSIVE AND PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR PREPARING ALL

      KINDS OF PLAIN AND FANCY MIXED DRINKS AND POPULAR

      BEVERAGES OF THE DAY, ACCORDING TO THE APPROVED

      AND ACCEPTED METHODS OF THE PROFESSION. THIS

      BOOK IS DESIGNED MORE PARTICULARLY FOR

      CLUB-HOUSES AND ROOMS, FOR STEAMBOATS,

      SAMPLE ROOMS, AND THE GENTLEMAN’S

      SIDEBOARD. TO THE RECIPES FOR

      BEVERAGES THERE HAS BEEN

      APPENDED A NUMBER OF

      OTHER VALUABLE

      SUGGESTIONS AND

      RECIPES.

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Cocktail and Beverage Making

      Water, water everywhere,

      And all the boards did shrink;

      Water, water, everywhere,

      Nor any drop to drink!

      As Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) warns us; water is everywhere - but drinks for human consumption are an entirely different matter! A drink, or beverage, is a kind of liquid which is specifically prepared for human consumption. There are many types of drinks. They can be divided into various groups such as plain water, alcohol, non-alcoholic drinks, soft drinks (carbonated drinks), fruit or vegetable juices and hot drinks, such as hot chocolate. In addition to fulfilling a basic need, drinks form an important part of the culture of human society. Cocktail mixing and hot beverages (specifically coffee) are the only two sub genres to have really taken the publics imagination however, but today they have evolved into a highly specific and skilled craft form.

      A cocktail is a beer or an alcoholic mixed drink that contains three or more ingredients—at least one of the ingredients must be a spirit, one sweet/sugary and one sour/bitter. This is the traditional definition of a cocktail, however today, the term will commonly be used for almost any mixed alcoholic drink, including mixers, mixed shots, etc. The origin of the word ‘cocktail’ is heavily disputed. The first recorded use of the word cocktail is found in The Morning Post and Gazetteer in London, England on March 20, 1798:

      'Mr. Pitt, two petit vers of L’huile de Venus.

      Ditto, one of perfeit amour.

      Ditto, 'cock-tail' (vulgarly called ginger).'

      The first recorded use of the word cocktail in the United States is said to be in The Farmer's Cabinet on April 28, 1803, however the Oxford English dictionary lists the word as originating in the United States. Regardless of this controversy, the first publication of a bartenders' guide, which included cocktail recipes was in 1862 — How to Mix Drinks; or, The Bon Vivant's Companion, by 'Professor' Jerry Thomas. In addition to listings of recipes for Punches, Sours, Slings, Cobblers, Shrubs, Toddies, Flips, and a variety of other types of mixed drinks, were ten recipes for drinks referred to as 'Cocktails.' A key ingredient which differentiated 'cocktails' from other drinks in this compendium was the use of bitters as an ingredient.

      During Prohibition in the United States (1919–1933), when alcoholic beverages were illegal, cocktails were still consumed illegally in establishments known as speakeasies. The quality of liquor available during Prohibition was much worse than previously, and there was a shift away from whiskey towards gin - which did not require ageing, and was therefore easier to produce illicitly. Honey, fruit juices, and other flavourings served to mask the foul taste of the inferior liquors. Sweet cocktails were also easier to drink quickly, an important consideration when the establishment might be raided at any moment. After this period, the popularity of cocktails began to wane, however they experienced a resurgence in 1980, with vodka often substituting the original gin in drinks such as the 'martini'. Traditional cocktails and gin began to make a comeback in the 2000s.

      Coffee-making, compared to cocktail making has an incredibly long history. Establishments serving prepared

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