Bamboo — The Cocktail Ontologist

Variants (6)

About Town Cocktail Book by Joe Fitchett (1925, p.6) — About Town 1925

1 dash	orange bitters — Orange Bitters	base
0.25 gill	Dry pale sherry — Dry Pale Sherry	modifier
0.25 gill	French vermouth — French Vermouth	modifier
	ice — Broken ice	other

Garnish: Expressed lemon peel

Ice: Broken ice

This matters because it preserves the mild Anglo-colonial Bamboo checkpoint in a 1925 social cocktail collection.

Cocktails by "Jimmy" late of Ciro's London by Jimmy (1930) — Jimmy 1930, opening A-B recipe run

1 part	Orange juice (fresh) — Orange Juice	acid
2 part	sherry	base
1 dash per cocktail	Angostura bitters	bitter
2 part	dry vermouth — French Vermouth	modifier

Garnish: Lemon peel

Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett (1931) — Old Waldorf Bar Days 1931, opening cocktail appendix

The Green Cocktail Book by Jimmy, late of Ciro's London (1932, p.21)

	lemon peel — Squeezed on top.	acid
1 part	orange juice — Orange Juice	acid
2 part	sherry — Sherry	base
1 dash	Angostura bitters — Angostura Bitters	bitter
2 part	French vermouth — French Vermouth	modifier

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: Cracked ice

The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book by Albert Stevens Crockett (1935, p.38)

2 dashes	orange bitters	base
0.5 part	dry sherry — sherry	modifier
0.5 part	dry vermouth — French vermouth	modifier

Café Royal Cocktail Book by W. J. Tarling (1937, p.37)

1 dash	orange bitters	base
0.5 part	dry sherry — dry pale sherry	modifier
0.5 part	dry vermouth — French vermouth	modifier

See also: Sherry Cocktail