On Sat 18 Mar 2006 06:34:06p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Nexis?
> Has anyone here tried one of these? My husband gets the Wall St Journal,
> and one day a week there is a new recipe with the story of it on the
> back page of one section. A month or two ago, Gin Fizzes were featured.
> I had no idea until then that there was egg white in these! I made some
> and my husband and his brother thought they were quite tasty. Here's the
> recipe:
>
> Silver Gin Fizz:
> juice of 1/2 lemon
> juice of 1/2 lime
> 1 tbsp superfine sugar
> 1 egg white
> 2 oz good gin (we used Tanqueray No. 10)
> Club Soda, chilled
>
> Combine everything except the soda in a drink shaker. Add ice and shake
> like crazy until it feels like your arm will fall off, then shake a few
> minutes more. Strain into glass and add a few ounces of club soda to top
> off. Serve immediately
>
> And for those who prefer rum:
> Trader Vic's Rum Fizz
> 1 1/2 oz light rum (we used Pyrat)
> 1 oz lemon juice (fresh)
> 2 tsp superfine sugar
> 1 egg
> 1/2-1 ounce cream soda
> finely grated orange rind
>
> Combine all but the cream soda and orange rind, and again, shake until
> you can't shake no more. Then shake summore! 
Top off with cream soda
> after straining into glass, and finish with grated orange rind.
>
> kimberly
Wow, classics right out of the 1930s, right up there with Sidecars, Old-
Fashions, Bronx Cocktails, Manhattans, and Martinis. A Sloe Gin Fizz is
nice, too.
When I was growing up in the late 1940s and 1950s, my parents entertained a
lot and kept a fairly extensive bar. True "cocktail parties" were still
very much in vogue, and drinks like these were still very common. Though
my parents and their friends didn't really seem to drink a lot, they did
enjoy a wide variety of concoctions, all of them interesting.
Here's a fairly extensive guide to drinks of the period...
http://www.cocktailrecipeguide.com/
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Wayne Boatwright ożo
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