Excerpt from Scientific Bar-Keeping: A Collection of Recipes Used by Leading Bar-Keepers in Making Standard and New Fancy Mixed Drinks, and Reliable Directions for Preserving Native and Foreign Wines, Ales, Beer and Liquors Brandy cocktail - 3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup; 2 dashes of bitters; 1 wine glass of brandy; I or 2 dashes of Curacoa 1 small piece of lemon peel. Fill ya. Full of fine ice; sshake well and strain in a glass. (use shwil Mr glass.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.