OP: The Dispenser's Formulary or Soda Water Guide
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D. O. Haynes & CO., Publishers, New York, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Third edition, revised and enlarged.
Using the example of cocktail uniformity across regions and from one bartender to the next, the editors of trade magazine The Soda Fountain sought to establish a similar expectation for patrons of soda fountains and lunch counters around the US. A shake, a split, and an ‘ade should, reasonably, be recognizable wherever one partakes—if soda jerks are to be taken seriously anyway.
Enter The Dispenser’s Formulary, the periodical’s early 20th century manual setting industry standards from sanitation and vocabulary to food and beverage recipes. While old-timey soda fountains have fallen by the wayside without any real modern equivalent to replace them, a quick browse of this 1915 third edition excites with a dizzying number of lively refreshments like the fruit frazzle, the happy hooligan, the clam milk shake (yes, with real clam juice, milk, soda water, salt, and white pepper), the humdinger, and the don’t care egg shake.
The food items have less whimsical names, but there are still surprises like a dandelion green sandwich, a gooseberry-goose spread, and a macaroni rarebit. All genuinely interesting browsing from a historical or a culinary perspective.
Our copy is a sturdy but shelfworn copy, lightly foxed.
