American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection: How to Mix Drinks : Or, The Bon Vivant's Companion (Hardcover)

from stephmo

As a piece of history, this is fascinating stuff. Cocktails were not super-sweet affairs designed to mask the taste of liquor and measurements for single drinks often include "a wineglass of rum." Flips, Fizzes and all manner of punches are present. On the other hand, very little of it is practic...

from kobzar1960

"How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion: The Original Cocktail Guide" is a great reprint of the original publication of 1862. The book is partly a historical reference to tastes of the 1800's and a look back at days gone by. While there are coctails and punch recipes that require hard to...

from AnnieHidalgo

This book is an interesting look at bartending, as it started out. I enjoyed seeing what ingredients were available back then, though I found that to actually make the recipes, sometimes I had to make a halfway version, using the ingredients from this book and the measurements from a more up-to-d...

from tanenbaum

This is a fun little book of cocktail history. It may not be the most practical book, but it's neat to see the historical recipes for classic drinks. I especially love the punch section, which involves mixing gallons of ingredients into massive concoctions. There are many non-standard measures us...

from varielle

This 150 year old cocktail guide is an amusing historical artifact. The drinks are old fashioned varieties that are seldom seen and not suitable to today's tastes. However, it's a fun history to have around for those interested in mixology.