USEFUL EQUIVALENTS FOR MEASURING LIQUIDS
| ¼ fluid ounce | = | 1.5 teaspoons (7 ml) |
| ½ fluid ounce | = | 1 tablespoon (15 ml) |
| ¾ fluid ounce | = | 1½ tablespoons (22 ml) |
| 1 fluid ounce | = | 2 tablespoons (30 ml) |
| 1½ fluid ounces | = | 3 tablespoons (45 ml) |
| 2 fluid ounces | = | ¼ cup (60 ml) |
| 2½ fluid ounces | = | ⅓ cup (79 ml) |
| 3 fluid ounces | = | (89 ml) |
| 4 fluid ounces | = | ½ cup (120 ml) |
| 6 fluid ounces | = | ¾ cup (175 ml) |
| 8 fluid ounces | = | 1 cup (237 ml) |
| 10 fluid ounces | = | 1¼ cup (or ½ pint) (296 ml) |
| 1 large egg | = | 1 to 1½ ounces of white (30 to 45 ml) |
| 1 lemon | = | about 1½ ounces of juice (45 ml) |
| 1 lime | = | about 1 ounce of juice (30 ml) |
USEFUL BOOKS FOR THE AVID COCKTAILER
These books have been invaluable to us during our exploration. We’ve listed them in the order in which they were published.
The Bon Vivant’s Companion, by Jerry Thomas (1862, 1887)
American and Other Drinks, by Leo Engel (1878)
Bartenders’ Manual: A Guide for Hotels and Restaurants, by Harry Johnson (1882)
The Flowing Bowl: What and When to Drink, by William Schmidt (1891)
Stuart’s Fancy Drinks and How to Mix Them, by Thomas Stuart (1904)
Recipes for Mixed Drinks, by Hugo Ensslin (1917)
The Ideal Bartender, by Tom Bullock (1917)
Harry’s ABC’s of Mixing Cocktails, by Harry McElhone (1919)
Barflies and Cocktails, by Harry McElhone (1927)
The Savoy Cocktail Book, by Harry Craddock (1930)
The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book, by A. S. Crockett (1935)
Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ’Em, by Stanley Arthur (1937)
A Gentleman’s Companion: Being an Exotic Drinking Book, or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask, by Charles H. Baker (1939)
Cocktail Guide and Ladies’ Companion, by Crosby Gaige (1941)
The Stork Club Bar Book, by Lucius Beebe (1946)
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto, by Bernard DeVoto (1948)
The Official Mixer’s Manual, by Patrick Gavin Duffy (1948)
The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, by David A. Embury (1948)
Bottoms Up, by Ted Saucier (1951)
Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail, by Lowell Edmunds (1981)
Straight Up or On the Rocks, by William Grimes (2002)
The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, by Dale DeGroff (2002)
Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender’s Craft, by Gary Regan (2003)
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, by Wayne Curtis (2006)
The Essential Bartender’s Guide: How to Create Truly Great Cocktails, by Robert Hess (2008)
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis, by Kingsley Amis (2008)
Big Bartender’s Book, by Jeff Mason and Greg Boehm (2009)
Fix the Pumps, by Darcy O’Neil (2009)
Beach Bum Berry Remixed, by Jeff “Beachbum” Berry (2009)
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, by Ted Haigh (2009)
Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits, by Jason Wilson (2010)
The PDT Cocktail Book, Jim Meehan (2011)
To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, by Philip Greene (2012)
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks, by Amy Stewart (2013)
Craft Cocktails at Home: Offbeat Techniques, Contemporary Crowd-pleasers, and Classics Hacked with Science, by Kevin Liu (2013)
Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks from Yesterday and Today, by Warren Bobrow (2013)
The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique, by Jeffrey Morgenthaler (2014)
Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails, with More Than 500 Recipes, by David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, Alex Day (2015)