The Ideal Bartender
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Ideal Bartender, by Tom Bullock
1917
DEDICATED
TO THOSE WHO ENJOY SNUG CLUB ROOMS, THAT THEY MAY LEARN THE ART OF PREPARING FOR THEMSELVES WHAT IS GOOD.
IS IT ANY WONDER THAT MANKIND STANDS OPEN-MOUTHED BEFORE THE BARTENDER, CONSIDERING THE MYSTERIES AND MARVELS OF AN ART THAT BORDERS ON MAGIC? RECIPES FOUND IN THIS BOOK HAVE BEEN COMPOSED AND COLLECTED, TRIED AND TESTED, IN A QUARTER-CENTURY OF EXPERIENCE BY TOM BULLOCK OF THE ST. LOUIS COUNTRY CLUB.
A testimonial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which appeared in the form of an editorial, Wednesday evening, May 28, 1913, at a time when Col. Roosevelt was vindicating, by a libel suit, his reputation for sobriety and temperance.
Colonel Roosevelt's fatal admission that he drank just a part of one julep at the St. Louis Country Club will come very near losing his case.
Who was ever known to drink just a part of one of Tom's? Tom, than whom there is no greater mixologist of any race, color or condition of servitude, was taught the art of the julep by no less than Marse Lilburn G. McNair, the father of the julep. In fact, the very cup that Col. Roosevelt drank it from belonged to Governor McNair, the first Governor of Missouri, the great-grandfather of Marse Lilburn and the great-great-grandfather of the julep.
As is well known, the Country Club mint originally sprang on the slopes of Parnassus and was transplanted thence to the bosky banks of Culpeper Creek, Gaines County, Ky., and thence to our own environs; while the classic distillation with which Tom mingles it to produce his chief d'oeuvre is the oft-quoted liquefied soul of a Southern moonbeam falling aslant the dewy slopes of the Cumberland Mountains.
To believe that a red-blooded man, and a true Colonel at that, ever stopped with just a part of one of those refreshments which have made St. Louis hospitality proverbial and become one of our most distinctive genre institutions, is to strain credulity too far. Are the Colonel's powers of self restraint altogether transcendent? Have we found the living superman at last?
Tom Bullock
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THE IDEAL BARTENDER
TOM BULLOCK
INTRODUCTION
ABRICONTINE POUSSE CAFE
ABSINTHE
ABSINTHE, AMERICAN SERVICE
ABSINTHE COCKTAIL
ABSINTHE FRAPPE
ABSINTHE, FRENCH SERVICE
ABSINTHE, ITALIAN SERVICE
ADMIRAL SCHLEY HIGH BALL
ALE FLIP
ALE SANGAREE
AMERICAN POUSSE CAFE
APOLLINARIS LEMONADE
APPLE JACK COCKTAIL
APPLEJACK FIX
APPLEJACK SOUR
"ARF-AND-ARF"
ARRACK PUNCH
ASTRINGENT
AUDITORIUM COOLER
ALL RIGHT COCKTAIL
BACARDI COCKTAIL
BACARDI COCKTAIL—Country Club Style
BALDY COCKTAIL
BAMBOO COCKTAIL
BLACK COW
BLOOD HOUND COCKTAIL
BOMBAY COCKTAIL
BENEDICTINE
BEEF TEA
BISHOP
BISHOP A LA PRUSSE
BISMARCK
BIZZY IZZY HIGH BALL
BLACK STRIPE
BLACK AND TAN PUNCH (For party of 10)
BLACKTHORNE COCKTAIL
BLACKTHORNE SOUR
BLIZ'S ROYAL RICKEY
BLUE BLAZER
BOATING PUNCH
BOMBAY PUNCH (2½-gallon mixture for 40 people)
BON SOIR ("Good Night")
BOSTON COOLER
BOTTLE OF COCKTAIL
BRACE UP
BRANDY AND GINGER ALE
BRANDY AND SODA
BRANDY FLIP
BRANDY FLOAT
BRANDY JULEP
BRANDY PUNCH
BRANDY SCAFFA
BRANDY SHAKE
BRANDY SHRUB (2-gallon mixture for 40 people)
BRANDY SKIN
BRANDY SLING
BRANDY SMASH
BRANDY SOUR
BRANDY TODDY
BRONX COCKTAIL
BURNT BRANDY
BUSTER BROWN COCKTAIL
BUTTERED RUM
CALIFORNIA SHERRY COBBLER
CALIFORNIA WINE COBBLER
CARLETON RICKEY—St. Louis Style
CATAWBA COBBLER
CELERY SOUR
CENTURY CLUB PUNCH (for a party of 5)
CHAMPAGNE
CHAMPAGNE COBBLER
CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL
CHAMPAGNE CUP (2-gallon mixture)
CHAMPAGNE FRAPPE
CHAMPAGNE JULEP
CHAMPAGNE PUNCH (for a party of 6)
CHAMPAGNE SOUR
CHAMPAGNE VELVET
CHOCOLATE PUNCH
CIDER EGGNOG
CLARET AND ICE
CLARET COBBLER
CLARET CUP (2-gallon mixture)
CLARET FLIP
CLARET PUNCH
CLARET PUNCH (5-gallon mixture for a large reception or party of 100 people)
CLOVER CLUB COCKTAIL
CLOVER LEAF COCKTAIL
CLUB COCKTAIL
CLUB HOUSE CLARET PUNCH
CLUB HOUSE PUNCH (for a party of 20)
COFFEE COCKTAIL
COHASSET PUNCH
COLD RUBY PUNCH (2½-gallon mixture for 50 people)
COLUMBIA SKIN
CONTINENTAL SOUR
CORDIAL LEMONADE
COUNTRY COCKTAIL
COUPEREE
CREME DE MENTHE
CRIMEAN CUP A LA MARMORA (for a party of 10)
COUNTRY CLUB PUNCH
COOPERSTOWN COCKTAIL
CURACOA
CURACOA PUNCH
CURRANT SHRUB
DERONDA COCKTAIL
DIARRHEA DRAUGHT
DIXIE COCKTAIL
DREAM
DELUSION
DORAY PUNCH
DORAY SOUR
DUPLEX COCKTAIL
DURKEE COCKTAIL
EAGLE PUNCH
EAST INDIA COCKTAIL
EGG MILK PUNCH
EGGNOG
EGGNOG (bowl of 3 gallons)
EGG SOUR
EL DORADO PUNCH
ENGLISH BISHOP PUNCH
FANCY WHISKEY SMASH
FANNIE WARD
FEDORA
FISH CLUB PUNCH (for a party of 8)
FOG HORN—Country Club Style
FREE LOVE COCKTAIL—-Club Style
FRENCH POUSSE CAFE
GARDEN PUNCH (2½ gallon mixture for a party of 50)
G.O.P.
GIBSON COCKTAIL
GILLETTE COCKTAIL—Chicago Style
GIN AND CALAMUS
GIN DAISY
GIN SOUR—Country Club Style
GIN SQUASH—Country Club Style
GOLFER'S DELIGHT—Home of Bevo—18th Hole.
HORSE THIEF COCKTAIL
IRISH ROSE—Country Club Style
JERSEY LIGHTNING COCKTAIL
KNABENSCHUE—Country Club Style
L.P.W.
LADIES' DELIGHT—Thursday Luncheon Punch
LEAPING FROG
LEMONADE APOLLINARIS (or Carbonated Water)
LONE TREE COCKTAIL
MINT JULEP—Kentucky Style
OVERALL JULEP—St. Louis Style
ONION COCKTAIL
OLD FASHION COCKTAIL
OJEN COCKTAIL
PEQUOT SEMER
PINEAPPLE JULEP (for a party of 6—Use a small punch bowl)
POLO PLAYERS' DELIGHT—Horse's Neck
POUSSE CAFE—St. Louis
PUNCH A LA ROMAINE (for a party of 16)
RAMOS GIN FIZZ—Country Club Style
REMSEN COOLER
SEPTEMBER MORN COCKTAIL—Country Club Style
SHANDY GAFF
SHERRY AND BITTERS
STINGER—Country Club Style
STONE SOUR
SAMTON COCKTAIL
TOM TOM
TOM AND JERRY
TOKAY PUNCH
TWILIGHT COCKTAIL
WHISKEY PUNCH—St. Louis Style
WHISKEY SCOTCH HOT
WHISKEY IRISH HOT
INDEX