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Post #664859 by TropicDrinkBoy on Tue, Jan 22, 2013 10:08 PM

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By the way, here is what Trader Vic says about the birth of the Frankenstein in his "Frankly Speaking" autobiography. Maybe it was taught to him by Albert Martin as the "Franken Jack" and he renamed it to the Frankenstein. I understand the Franken Jack was published in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930.

"When I went back to Oakland (after his tour of famous bars in L.A., New Orleans and Cuba), I started to mix several different drinks. I used the La Florida cocktail, the La Florida daiquiri, and a planter's punch, along with some drinks Albert Martin had shown me. And we went to work and made up a lot of new ones. Drinks that would sell in America. Tongo punches (maybe Tonga?) and frankensteins. Hot buttered rums in the wintertime. And a whole raft of little drinks."