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WHISKEY CRUSTA.

Brandy Crusta.

(Use small bar-glass.)

  • Take 3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup.
  • Take 1 dash of Boker’s bitters.
  • Take 1 wine-glass of brandy.
  • Take 2 dashes of Curacoa.
  • Take 1 dash lemon juice.

Before mixing the above ingredients, prepare a cocktail glass as follows:

Brandy Crusta.
Brandy Crusta.

Rub a sliced lemon around the rim of the glass, and dip it in pulverized white sugar, so that the sugar will adhere to the edge of the glass. Pare half a lemon the same as you would an apple (all in one piece) so that the paring will fit in the wine-glass, as shown in the cut. Put the above ingredients into a small whiskey glass filled one-third full of shaved ice, shake up well and strain the liquid into the cocktail glass prepared as above directed.


Whiskey Crusta.

(Use small bar-glass.)

The whiskey crusta is made in the same manner as the brandy crusta, using whiskey instead of brandy.