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Where's My 'Wild Wild West Drink' Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 1/2 oz. Jack Daniel's
1 oz. Schnapps, peach
2 oz. Cranberry Juice
Directions:
Directions:
Build over ice in a highball glass.

"Giving up drinking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." -- Mark Twain

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.-- Mae West

In hard scrabble days, the whiskey served in many of the western saloons was some pretty wicked stuff made with raw alcohol, burnt sugar and a little chewing tobacco. No wonder it took on such names as Tanglefoot, Forty-Rod, Tarantula Juice, Taos Lightning, Red Eye, and Coffin Varnish.
Also popular was Cactus Wine, made from a mix of tequila and peyote tea, and Mule Skinner, made with whiskey and blackberry liquor. The house rotgot was often 100 proof, though it was sometimes cut by the barkeep with turpentine, ammonia, gun powder or cayenne.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
The majority of western saloon regulars drank straight liquor -- rye or bourbon. If a man ordered a "fancy" cocktail or "sipped" at his drink, he was often ridiculed unless he was "known" or already had a proven reputation as a "tough guy." Unknowns, especially foreigners who often nursed their drinks, were sometimes forced to swallow a fifth of 100 proof at gunpoint "for his own good."

 

 

 

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