The Bar-tender's Guide/Saratoga Brace Up

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

(Use large bar-glass.)

  • Take 1 table-spoonful of fine white sugar.
  • Take 2 dashes of Angostura bitters.
  • Take 4 dashes of lemon or lime juice.
  • Take 2 dashes of Absinthe.
  • Take 1 fresh egg.
  • Take 1 wine-glass of brandy.
  • Take 2 or 3 small lumps of ice.

Shake up thoroughly, strain into another glass, and fill it up with Seltzer water.