Fan Fiction Sneak Peek: Here's How!

Ending With ‘Party Mixes’

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

We’ve gone through Here's How and chosen eight cocktails we think are the cat’s meow, so stay tuned to the blog for swell sneak peeks of what we’ll be slinging at our next Fan Fiction fête on Monday, February 4th, 5pm-2am. That's tonight!

Fan Fiction Sneak Peek: Here's How!

Food for Drink — Not Thought

“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

We’ve gone through Here's How and chosen eight cocktails we think are the cat’s meow, so stay tuned to the blog for swell sneak peeks of what we’ll be slinging at our next Fan Fiction fête on Monday, February 4th, 5pm-2am.

Fan Fiction Sneak Peek: Here's How

Some “Well Dressed” Drinks

“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

We’ve gone through Here's How and chosen eight cocktails we think are the cat’s meow, so stay tuned to the blog for swell sneak peeks of what we’ll be slinging at our next Fan Fiction fête on Monday, February 4th, 5pm-2am. 

Fan Fiction Sneak Peek: Here's How

Under Highballs — The Collins & Rickey Families — And Some Others

“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

We’ve gone through Here's How and chosen eight cocktails we think are the cat’s meow, so stay tuned to the blog for swell sneak peeks of what we’ll be slinging at our next Fan Fiction fête on Monday, February 4th, 5pm-2am.

Fan Fiction: Here's How!

Our February edition of Fan Fiction will visit another vintage cocktail manual that takes a lighthearted approach to the art of mixing drinks: the 1941 edition of Here’s How by W.C. Whitfield. The writing and illustrations are engagingly quirky and the drinks appropriately delicious.

Did you know you could make powdered sugar out of regular sugar? Neither did we, until we took a closer look at this fun-spirited (get it?) cocktail book. (For those with an aversion to pre-packaged, pre-powdered products, just put sugar in the blender and boom! Powdered sugar.) While powdered sugar isn’t an ingredient you see often in modern cocktail books, it appears to have been a staple of the everyday home bar a mere 70 years ago.

We’ve gone through and chosen eight cocktails we think are the cat’s meow, so stay tuned to the blog for swell sneak peeks of what we’ll be slinging on Monday, February 4th, 5pm-2am.