Mixed Drinks by Herbert W. Green (1895, p.64)

1 piecelemon peel — twisted lemon peelacid
0.5 jiggerbrandy base
sugar — Adhered to the inside of the glass.base
1 dashAromatic bitters — bittersbitter
champagne — Cook's Imperial or other champagneother
  1. Rinse a star champagne glass with water and sugar so sugar adheres to the sides, then fill the glass with shaved ice.
  2. Add the bitters, brandy, and lemon peel, then fill with champagne.

Garnish: Twisted lemon peel.

Ice: Shaved ice

This is a useful sparkling-cocktail checkpoint because it preserves a sugared-glass treatment rather than the more common sugar-lump approach.

The sugar lining of the glass is central to the drink's service identity.

Rawling's Book of Mixed Drinks by Ernest P. Rawling (1914) — Rawling 1914, cocktail section

0.5 pony glasscognac base
0.25 wholelemon base
0.5 pony glasskummel modifier
topchampagne other
frostingbar sugar sweetener
  1. Frost the inside of a punch glass with lemon and sugar, add cognac and kummel, and fill with well-chilled champagne.

Garnish: Sugared glass

Ice: None

Lineage reconciliation

See also: Champagne Cocktail, Metropolitan Cocktail

Green uses sugar adhered to the inside of the glass itself.