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Bottle Cocktail

To make a delicious bottle of brandy cocktail, use the following ingredients: brandy, water, 1 Fig. 2. gingerbeer knot, which is thus made. First the loop is formed as in Fig. 1, then that part of the string which passes across the loop is placed on the top of the cork, pony-glass of Bogart's bitters, 1 wine-glass of gum syrup, 1/2 pony-glass of Curaçoa. and the loop itself passed down around the Whiskey and gin cocktails, in bottles, may be neck of the bottle, and by pulling the ends of made by using the above receipt, and substi- the cord is made tight beneath the rim; the tuting those liquors instead of brandy.

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