The Bar-tender's Guide/Gin and Wormwood

The Bar-tender's Guide: How to mix all kinds of plain and fancy drinks (1887)
by Jerry Thomas
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Gin and Wormwood.

(Use small bar-glass.)

Put five or six sprigs of wormwood into a quart decanter, and fill up with gin. This is used in the rural districts as a sort of bitters, and is said to be a good tonic.