Ramos Gin Fizz

1928

Source: New Orleans Item-Tribune

1 table-spoon powdered sugar

Ingredient: powdered sugar

Also Known As: Superfine sugar What it is: Additive

Very fine powdered sugar. In industrial food production, it is used where a quick dissolving sugar is required. Powdered sugar is generally mixed with cornstarch, wheat flour, or calcium phosphate to improve its flowing ability, and thus it is not generally used to sweeten beverages, but is used as a garnish.

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3 to 4 drop Orange flower water

Ingredient: Orange flower water

Also Known As: Orange Water What it is: Additive

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¹/₂ lime

Ingredient: lime

What it is: Fruit

A number of different fruits (generally citruses), both species and hybrids, which have their origin in the Himalayan region of India, and which are typically round, green to yellow in color, 3–6 cm in diameter, generally containing sour and acidic pulp.

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juiced

¹/₂ lemon

Ingredient: lemon

What it is: Fruit

Common name for Citrus limon.

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juiced

1 jigger Old Tom Gin

Ingredient: Old Tom Gin

What it is: Gin

A lightly sweetened Gin popular in 18th-century England that now is rarely available.

Substitution: gin (London Dry)

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Old Gordon may be used but a sweet gin is preferable

1 egg

Ingredient: egg

What it is: Additive

Bird eggs are a common food and one of the most versatile ingredients used in cooking and have long been used in drinks. Usually used to add consistency and foam, egg whites and yolks are usually separated with "silver" indicating the white and "golden" the yolk. Modern chicken eggs are much larger, so use the smallest ones available.

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white

¹/₂ large bar glass ice

Ingredient: ice

What it is: Additive

The new general availability of ice in the mid 1800s revolutionized bar-tending and drinking. Ice was delivered in blocks that then had to to be broken, crushed, picked and shaved for increasingly popular individual drinks (as opposed to large punches).

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crushed

2 table-spoon cream

Ingredient: cream

Also Known As: sweet cream What it is: Additive

Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators". In many countries, cream is sold in several grades depending on the total butterfat content. Cream skimmed from milk may be called "sweet cream" to distinguish it from whey cream skimmed from whey, a by-product of cheese-making.

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1 ounce seltzer water

Ingredient: seltzer water

Also Known As: soda water, sparkling water, fizzy water What it is: Additive

Water which is carbonated and thus made effervescent by the addition of carbon dioxide gas under pressure. In 1767 Englishman Joseph Priestley invented soda water, also known as Carbonated water, when he first discovered a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide when he suspended a bowl of water above a beer vat at a local brewery in Leeds, England.

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a little, to make it pungent

Together well shaken and strained (drink freely).

To those who may have forgotten, a "jigger" is a stemmed sherry glass holding a little more than one ounce.

[Note: A jigger is this case is closer to 1.5 ounces.]