The Complete Buffet Guide by V. B. Lewis (1903, p.77) — V. B. Lewis 1903
| 1 teaspoon | Rock candy syrup — rock candy syrup | base |
| 1 wine-glass | rye whiskey — rye whisky | base |
- Add the rock candy syrup and rye whisky and stir well and serve.
- Alternatively, drop the syrup into the glass, leave the spoon in, and allow the customer to help himself to the whisky.
- Nose
- Rye and candy sweetness rise directly together.
- Palate
- The medicinal note matters historically: Lewis is recording not just a drink, but a use-case and a piece of period barroom folk therapeutics.
- Finish
- The finish is sweet, warm, and rye-led.
- Summary
- A medicinally framed sweetened rye service from the plain bar tradition.