Post #4523 by woofmutt on Sun, Jul 28, 2002 11:19 AM

I'd guess the recipe is different as one is for party/ banquet purposes another for bars. The question is was the 1946 recipe served at Trader Vic's and the other version the Scorpions later incarnation? If it changed it was probably for economics and public tastes. The original one for 12 calls for the mixture to sit in cracked ice for 2 hours. Obviously a lot of dilution was intended. Such a recipe would make no sense in a bar as "Please allow 2 hours for this drink to be made" isn't what most patrons want to see on a bar menu. The white wine was possibly omitted due to taste. It would seem to have worked like vermouth in the original and a lot of people don't like that undernote.