Dr. Siegert's Angostra Bitters Drink Guide - 1908 Reprint

This book was most likely a promotional piece, and so it has over 200 recipes (with and without bitters) of food and cocktails. Since it was made to be popular, it features only the most popular drinks at the time like Mamie Taylor, Whiskey Smash, and Gin Sour. It is a great book to date cocktails as they emerged or disappeared from favor.

Angostra Bitters was invented by Dr. Siegert in 1824 to cure all ailments - except the one you had. Lucky for us it was added to alcohol cures, as the umami and flavor make drinks ever so much more so.

The most famous Bitters drink is Pink Gin, where some bitters is swirled around the glass before the gin is added, changing the gin color to pink.

Still distilled in Trinidad, they sell over 10 million gallons of the little bottles around the world.

Paperback - 75 pages