Bottle Cocktail.
To make a splendid bottle of brandy cocktail, use the following ingredients:
- Take ⅔ brandy.
- Take 4 water.
- Take ⅓ pony-glass of Boker’s bitters.
- Take 1 wine-glass of gum syrup.
- Take ½ pony-glass of Curaçoa.
The author has always used this recipe in compounding the above beverage for connoisseurs. Whiskey and gin cocktails, in bottles, may be made by using the above recipe, and substituting those liquors instead of brandy.