Bartender's Manual by Theodore Proulx (1888, p.32) — Theodore Proulx 1888
| Lemon juice (fresh) — lemon juice | acid | |
| 1 whole | egg — egg | base |
| 1 glass | cider — cider | other |
| ice — ice | other | |
| nutmeg — nutmeg | other |
- Shake the egg, lemon juice, and cider with ice.
- Strain and add a little nutmeg if desired.
Garnish: Nutmeg
Ice: Ice
- Summary
- An egg-and-cider mixed drink that preserves another orchard branch in the late nineteenth-century bar.
The Prohibition matters because it shows cider still acting as a real mixed-drink base rather than just a rustic side note.
Its shaken egg structure places it closer to flip-and-nogg territory than to plain cider service.
Compared with Snow Ball, this is flatter, cider-led, and less explicitly lengthened by a bottled mixer.