Box 1
Container
Contains 12 Results:
Prince George Hotel [Nassau] "Planter's Punch" recipe
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Cocktail Ephemera Collection is a collection that was created in 2013. The collection consists of materials in a variety of formats relating to the history of the cocktails, dating from the about the 1870s to the present. Materials include advertising and promotional items; pamphlets with recipes and suggestions for entertaining (party games, themes, and more); and postcards. The focus of the collection is cocktails, but some materials also relate to wine and beer in their own right, as...
Dates:
c.1870s-2000s
Tolu Rock and Rye standing display, c.1880-1881
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content
Tolu Rock and Rye appears to have a short history of distribution between 1880 and 1881 (possibly a little later) as a patent medicine. Classification of the drink as a medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries made it easy for suppliers to avoid unwanted attention from the temperance movement and to avoid the taxes placed on alcohol at the time. As a medicine, rock and rye might be drunk straight, or mixed with hot tea. Recipes ranged from a basic mix of whisky and rock...
Dates:
c.1880-1881