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Because MT students and scholars sometimes wonder about such things, we are looking for recipes for cocktails that Mark Twain and "the boys" demand from a puzzled Parisian barkeeper early in The Innocents Abroad:
"Give us a brandy smash!"
The Frenchman began to back away, suspicious of the ominous vigor of the last order ....
The General followed him up and gained a complete victory. The uneducated foreigner could not even furnish a Santa Cruz Punch, and Eye-Opener, a Stone-Fence, or an Earthquake.
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So we need authentic 19th century recipes for the following, and we don't see them in the cookbooks on the kitchen shelf, or the blogs for Mad Men:
Brandy Smash
Santa Cruz Punch
Eye-Opener
Stone-Fence
Earthquake
Help on any of these mysteries will be appreciated.
Best regards,
Bruce Michelson
University of Illinois
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