Provides the structural link between medicinal bitters and the canonical American whiskey cocktail.
English relies on David Wondrich's cocktail scholarship; Imbibe! and the original newspaper should carry the strongest publication claim.
English reproduces the 1806 American definition of a cocktail as spirits, sugar, water, and bitters and explains that this distinguished the form from a toddy; the format could use whiskey and became the lineage of the Whiskey Cocktail or Old-Fashioned.
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Chapter 9 — Bitters
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