#74 Cocktail: Champagne Cocktail

     The original Champagne Cocktail is detailed in Jerry Thomas's 1862 "How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant Companion", but his methodology is a little bit strange: " Fill tumbler one third full of broken ice and fill balance with wine. Shake well and serve. The ingredient are listed as champagne, a half tea spoon of sugar, one or two dashes of angostura bitters, and one piece of lemon peel, and that's pretty much what we use to make a Champagne Cocktail today, but the idea to shake up the drink is somewhat mystifying. The shaker could explode when open.
     A couple of yyears later, Charles H Barker Jr., detailed quite a few deviations in his book " The Gentleman's Companion". They included teh Maharajah's Burra-Peg: "And we would sip various things includiing a quartet of champagneBurra-Peg and he would recount to us certain toothsome bits of under the punkah' tales about maharajahs and people; and how, actually, the young new that we met prefered one wife to the regiment of 400 or so what his dad thoughtfully left for him.
     In 1945, more variations of champagne cocktails with names such as She Couldn't Say No, Her Sarong Slipped and Widow's Might appeared in "Crosby's Guide and Ladies' Companion"

1 sugar cube soaked in Angostura bitters 

5 1/2 ounces Champagne