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ADMIRAL NIMITZ recipe for the Old Fashioned Mix which he calls
17 CINCPAC SPECIAL"
1 clean one-gallon jug
3 quarts Bourbon
1/4 of a fifth of gold label
Add sugar cantiously you canzjust
of sucar
remainder of jug with top water
Desirable but not necessary: drop two whole vanilla beans into
The jug to stay' for many refills of jusg o They last for years
Ponr genérous portions over ice and serve it forth:
This recipe was developed by Admiral Nimitz when he was Commander
in Chief of the Pacific at a time when liquor was rationed
bottle & week to a man 'and irequently rum was the only kind
available,
recire for Cactis (rom
certy days in Texas. Theriewalians call it Panini jeily
Pick half ripe cactus iruit with long handled meat fork to
avoid spines. Place in pail and Tel water rem. into it to
Put fruit in big pots spinés and aft, and/slice it in
the not the Add that carp of water and cook untli the iruit is
well done . Then put in strainer and. stralo out juice, straining
the
se 1° times through double cloth.
4 cups of cactus juice
3 112 cups of sugar
unce of two lemons
1/2 bottle Certo
Boil juice, sugar, and lemon juice for hall hour, then put
Certo, in, and boil again for five minutes Pour into step lized
glassijers and les set overnight. If substance, does not
holl agáin for ten minutes.