Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh

Author:Ted Haigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2009-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

Biscuit (cookie) tin circa 1935, figurine (actually a decanter) circa 1940, Gordon’s Sloe Gin circa 1939, two bottles of Myers’s Plantation Punch Rum with stated age of eight years circa 1936, Apricot Liqueur circa 1888.

So here we have the Millionaire Cocktail. I found the recipe for it in The How and When of 1937. It was actually the Millionaire #4 as written up in that book, and the Millionaire #1 in 1930’s Savoy Cocktail Book. (Numbers like that were once a time-honored way to catalog drink variations and entirely different drinks, which happened to have the same name.) I have been guilty of calling out “Millionaire #4,” and I suppose among those familiar with the book it might help to pinpoint exactly which drink is being discussed, but it really isn’t right. Unless you can specify a temporal order to such numbered drinks, they all deserve to be number one. In truth, they are all simply “Millionaires.” In other cases, and certainly since the cocktail revival, drink variations get their own names, such as the Martini becomes a Gibson merely by changing the garnish from a twist or an olive to a cocktail onion.

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