All the creations of the drink mixer’s skill placed before up to now have been for solo portions, one joy producer for one man. But there are many occasions when a liquid structure that will withstand the attacks of ten or a dozen or even fifty of your thirst maddened friends must be prepared.
Browse among these generously planned liquid masterpieces — you will find them more interesting and far more tempting than the solo variety. Here’s happy days!W.C. Whitfield, Here's How
“The next family of drinks with which you are likely to have a convivial acquaintance is distinguished by the fact that it offers food values as its principal reason for existence."
“Perhaps a very considerable number of their prtisans use their egg and milk content simply as an excuse for getting the hard liquors that go along, but this will always be a moot question. However, many mild drinkers really like the smooth blandness of the egg and milk concoctions, furthermore, the medical fraternity is prone to plug for them as ‘builder-uppers’ in disguise. And so they will always ‘go over big’”
W.C. Whitfield, Here's How
“The ‘four hundred’ of the mixed drink world, the ‘real Bon Tons,’ might be said to include the Juleps and the Punches (the singles, or bachelors). They are classed as the elite of spiritual society because they are the swellest dressers. Whenever they appear at parties they are invariably all ‘dolled up’ in bright colors and trimmed in the fresh fruits of the season. And do they hand out the icy stares? They fairly freeze you!”
W.C. Whitfield, Here's How
“Only a general effort has been made to marshall the various drinks into clans whose principal characteristics are similar, mainly with the idea of helping the searcher after new alcoholic thrills find something that his cellar will enable him to try.”
—W.C. Whitfield, Here's How
